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Published: 2012-01
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: veyed public lands in Alaska could locate the lands upon which such mine was situated in rectangular tracts containing 40, 80, or 160 acree, and fixed the conditions and price at which the lands could be patented. Scofield, In re (Cunningham Claims), 41 L. D. 176, p. 224. By the act of April 28,1904, Congress gave relief to the pioneers iu Alaska by amending existing laws so as to provide a means by which qualified persons who had opened or improved, or who thereafter might open or improve, a mine or mines of coal on the unsurveyed public lands in Alaska could locate tracts of 160 acres or less and through their own efforts secure the identification thereof in such manner as to permit the claims to pass to patent. Scofleld, In re (Cunningham Claims), 41 L. D. 176, p. 225. 5. LOCATIONS OF COAT, LANDS QUALIFICATIONS OF LOCATORS. By this amendatory act persons or associations of persons locating or entering coal lands in the District of Alaska are required to possess the qualifications of persons or associations making entry under the general coal land laws of the United States and are subject to the same limitations. Scofield, In re (Cunnigham Claims), 41 L. D. 176, p. 226. 6. NOTICE OF COAL LOCATION?TIME OF FILING. Under this act notices of coal location must be filed within the prescribed time and false dates can not be given to locations actually made for the purpose of bringing them within the year preceding the filing of declaratory statements and notices of claim filed with the local offices. Scofield, In re (Cunningham Claims), 41 L. D. 176, p. 232. Note.?The provision of section 8 of the act of May 17,1884 (23 Stat.24, 1 Supp. R. S. 430), making Alaska a land district, has been repealed, by implication, at least, by sections 204, 20fi, and 215, ...