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 702 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1369. 1902. ment roll with the provincial secretary or such other omcer as by the government of the Phililppine Islands may be described as mining recorder, together with the certificate of the chief of the Philippine insular bureau of public lands that the requisite amount of labor has been expended or improvements made thereon, and the description Payment. required in other cases, and shall pay to the provincial treasurer or the collector of internal revenue of the province in which the claim is situated, as the case may be, Eve do lars per acre for his claim, together with the plroper fees, whereupon the whole proceedings and the jud ment roll s al be certiiied by the (provincial secretary or such other oécer as by said government may be escribed as mining recorder shall issue thereon for the claim, or such portion thereof as the appli- · cant shall appear, from the decision of the court, rightly to plossess. 0**** The adverse claim may be verified by the oath of any duly authorized agent or attorney in fact of the adverse claimant cognizant of the facts stated; and the adverse claimant, if residing or at the time being beyond the limits of the province wherein the claim is situated, may make oath to the 8.dV€l'SG claim before the clerk of any court of record, or any notary public of any plrovince or military department of the Philippine slands, or any other officer authorized to administer oaths where mmm °°°° °mm' the court that several parties are entitled) to separate and different portions of the claim, each tprrty may pay for hisfortion of the claim, - with the ro r fees, and e the certificate an descri tion by the chief of the philippine insular bureau of public lands, wliereupon the provincial secretary or such other officer as by the government of said islands may be described as mining recorder shall certify the pro; ceedings and judgment roll to the secretary of the interior for the Phili pine Islands, as in the precedin case, and tents shall issue to P. . S. P“. . rms. the several parties according} to their respective rights. If in any action brought pursuant to t is section title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by either party, the court shall so find, and judgment shall be entered accordingly. In such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not proceed in the office of the provincial secretar · or such other officer as by the government of said islands may be dsescribed as mining recorder or be entitled to a patent for the ground in controvers until he shall have =*“°“¤¤°¤ 0* '“'°· perfected his title. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to [nevent the alienationhof a title conveyed by a patent for a mining c aim to any rson w atever. ,,e§Q‘,§‘}‘,§,,d;_P"" `"" Sec. 40. Tliiit the description of mineral claims upon surveyed lands shall designate the location of the claim with reference to the lines of °¤¤¤¤¤·‘v<=>‘¤¤*¤¤¤¤- the public surveys, but need not conform therewith; but where a patent shall be issued for claims upon unsurveyed lands the chief of the hilippine insular bureau of public lands in extendiu the surveys shall adjlust the same to the boundaries of such patentecll claim according to the plat or description thereof, but so as in no case to interfere _ with or change the location of any such patented claim. ,,,*f,;"°’“¤ *'°”° *“· Sec. 41. T mt any person authorized to enter lands under this Act may enter and obtain tent to lands that are chiefly valuable for building stone under td); provisions of this Act relative to placer minera claims. mQ*;f’°‘°“m· ***’¢-·°¤· Sec. 42. That any person authorized to enter lands under this Act may enter and obtain patent to lands containing petroleum or other mineral oils and chiefly valuable therefor under the provisions of this Act relative to placer mineral claims. ` {jgff °*¤i¤¤¤— Sec. 43. That no location of a placer claim shall exceed sixtv-four ` hectares for any association of persons, irrespective of the number of persons composing such association, and no such location shall include
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