three hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes are hereby extended to such affidavits. Said affidavits shall be filed not later than ninety days after the close of Time of filing. the year in which such work is performed. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 384.)

SEC. 2. That the recorders for the several divisions or districts of Alaska shall collect the sum of one dollar and fifty cents as a fee for the filing, recording, and indexing said annual proofs of work and improvements for each claim so recorded. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 385.)

Approved, March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. 1243).

An Act Extending the time in which to file adverse claims and institute adverse suits against mineral entries in the district of Alaska

Fee.

for filing adverse

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- Time extended bled, That in the district of Alaska adverse claims au- mineral claims in thorized and provided for in sections twenty-three Alaska. hundred and twenty-five and twenty-three hundred and twenty-six, United States Revised Statutes, may be filed at any time during the sixty days period of publication or within eight months thereafter, and the adverse suits authorized and provided for in section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six, United States Revised Statutes, may be instituted at any time within sixty days after the filing of said claims in the local land office.

Approved, June 7, 1910 (36 Stat. 459, U. S. C., title 48, sec. 386).

NOTE.--The act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 848, U. S. C., title 48. secs. 395-405), provides for a miner's labor lien in the Territory of Alaska.-EDITOR.

An Act To modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes

placer-mining

hibited.

Assessment

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- Association bled, That no association placer-mining claim shall here- claims proafter be located in Alaska in excess of forty acres, and on every placer-mining claim hereafter located in Alaska, required. and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, including the year of location, for each and every twenty acres or excess fraction thereof. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 387.)

SEC. 2. That no person shall hereafter locate any Location by atplacer-mining claim in Alaska as attorney for another torneys. unless he is duly authorized thereto by a power of attorney in writing, duly acknowledged and recorded in any recorder's office in the judicial division where the location is made. Any person so authorized may locate placer- Restriction. mining claims for not more than two individuals or one association under such power of attorney, but no such

Number of locations limited.

Ownership.

Area of claims limited.

agent or attorney shall be authorized or permitted to locate more than two placer-mining claims for any one principal or association during any calendar month, and no placer-mining claim shall hereafter be located in Alaska except under the limitations of this Act. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 388.)

SEC. 3. That no person shall hereafter locate, cause or procure to be located, for himself more than two placer-mining claims in any calendar month: Provided, That one or both of such locations may be included in an association claim. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 389.)

SEC. 4. [As amended by the act of Mar. 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1118.] That no placer mining claim hereafter located in Alaska shall be patented which shall contain a greater area than is fixed by law, nor which is longer than three times its greatest width as determined by a transverse line drawn within the lines of the claim and at right angles to its longest side: Provided, That where any isolated parcel of placer ground lies between and isolated adjoin adjoins patented or validly located claims on all of its sides and is not over thirteen hundred and twenty feet in length this dimensional restriction shall not apply. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 48, sec. 390.)

Proviso.

Allowance for

ing claims.

Effect of violations.

extended to

SEC. 5. That any placer-mining claim attempted to be located in violation of this Act shall be null and void, and the whole area thereof may be located by any qualified locator as if no such prior attempt had been made. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 391.)

Approved, August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242).

NOTE.-Assessment work on mining claims in Alaska was suspended for the years 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, and to July 1, 1921, by the acts of January 25, 1919 (40 Stat. 1055), February 28, 1919 (40 Stat. 1213), November 13, 1919 (41 Stat. 354), and December 31, 1920 (41 Stat. 1084). The commencement of the assessment work year was changed to the first day of July by the Act of August 24, 1921 (42 Stat. 186), p. 331, under "Mineral Lands."-EDITOR.

COAL LANDS

Cross reference: See subtitle "Homesteads," under this title, pp. 24, 28.

LOCATION AND ENTRY OF COAL LANDS

NOTE. The laws relating to the location and entry of coal lands in Alaska were superseded by the coal leasing act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741), p. 39.-EDITOR.

An Act To extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

Coal-land laws sembled, That so much of the public-land laws of the United States are hereby extended to the district of Alaska as relate to coal lands, namely, sections twenty

Alaska.

three hundred and forty-seven to twenty-three hundred and fifty-two, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes."

Approved, June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 658, U. S. C., title 48, sec. 431).

An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred

tries.

Location of de

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or association of persons qualified to make entry under the coal-land laws of the United States, who shall have opened or improved a coal mine Coal-land enor coal mines on any of the unsurveyed public lands of the United States in the district of Alaska, may locate the lands upon which such mine or mines are situated, vec mineral in rectangular tracts containing forty, eighty, or one hun-lands. dred and sixty acres, with north and south boundary lines run according to the true meridian, by marking the four corners thereof with permanent monuments, so that the boundaries thereof may be readily and easily traced. And all such locators shall, within one year Boundaries. from the passage of this Act, or within one year from making such location, file for record in the recording district, and with the register and receiver of the land Filing notice. district in which the lands are located or situated, a notice containing the name or names of the locator or locators, the date of the location, the description of the lands located, and a reference to such natural objects or permanent monuments as will readily identify the same. SEC. 2. That such locator or locators, or their assigns, who are citizens of the United States, shall receive a patent to the lands located by presenting, at any time within three years from the date of such notice, to the register and receiver of the land district in which the lands so located are situated an application therefor, accompanied be made within by a certified copy of a plat of survey and field notes thereof, made by a United States deputy surveyor or a United States mineral surveyor duly approved by the surveyor-general for the district of Alaska, and a payment of the sum of ten dollars per acre for the lands applied for; but no such application shall be allowed until price per acre. after the applicant has caused a notice of the presentation thereof, embracing a description of the lands, to have

Patents.

Application to

three years.

been published in a newspaper in the district of Alaska Notice to be published nearest the location of the premises for a published. period of sixty days, and shall have caused copies of such notice, together with a certified copy of the official plat

Amended by the act of Apr. 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 525), infra. For homestead entries on coal, oil, etc., lands, see the act of Mar. 8, 1922 (42 Stat. 415), under subtitle "Homesteads," p. 28.

10 For consolidation of claims see act of May 28, 1908 (35 Stat. 424),

Notice to be

posted on claim.

Shores of navigable waters.

Adverse claims.

Proceedings.

Continuance of existing laws.

coal deposits in Alaska.

of survey, to have been kept posted in a conspicuous place upon the land applied for and in the land office for the district in which the lands are located for a like period, and until after he shall have furnished proof of such publication and posting, and such other proof as is required by the coal-land laws: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made or title to be acquired to the shore of any navigable waters within said district.11

SEC. 3. That during such period of posting and publication, or within six months thereafter, any person or association of persons having or asserting any adverse interest or claim to the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be purchased shall file in the land office where such application is pending, under oath, an adverse claim, setting forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin an action to quiet title in a court of competent jurisdiction within the district of Alaska, and thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of the rights of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of such court therein.

SEC. 4. That all the provisions of the coal-land laws of the United States not in conflict with the provisions of this Act shall continue and be in full force in the district of Alaska. (U. S. C., title 48, sec. 431.)

Approved, April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. 525).

An Act To encourage the development of coal deposits in the Territory of Alaska

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemDevelopment of bled, That all persons, their heirs or assigns, who have in good faith personally or by an attorney in fact made locations of coal land in the Territory of Alaska in their own interest, prior to November twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, or in accordance with circular of instructions issued by the Secretary of the Interior May sixConsolidation of teenth, nineteen hundred and seven, may consolidate their claims permitted. said claims or locations by including in a single claim,

location, or purchase not to exceed two thousand five hunLimit of acreage. dred and sixty acres of contiguous lands, not exceeding in length twice the width of the tract thus consolidated, and for this purpose such persons, their heirs, or assigns, may form associations or corporations who may perfect entry of and acquire title to such lands in accordance with the other provisions of law under which said locations were originally made: Provided, That no corporation shall be permitted to consolidate its claims under this Act unless seventy-five per centum of its stock shall be held by persons qualified to enter coal lands in Alaska.

Restriction.

11 See the act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 1059), p. 28.

to purchase prod

and Navy.

SEC. 2. That the United States shall, at all times, have Preference right the preference right to purchase so much of the product uct for Army of any mine or mines opened upon the lands sold under the provisions of this Act as may be necessary for the use of the Army and Navy, and at such reasonable and remunerative price as may be fixed by the President; but the President. the producers of any coal so purchased who may be dissatisfied with the price thus fixed shall have the right to Litigation. prosecute suits against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of any additional sum or sums they may claim as justly due upon such purchase.

Price fixed by

forbidden.

SEC. 3. That if any of the lands or deposits purchased Unlawful trust under the provisions of this Act shall be owned, leased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device permanently, temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacitly, or in any manner whatsoever so that they form part of, or in any way effect any combination, or are in anywise controlled by any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of any contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade in the mining or selling of coal, or of any holding of such lands by any individual, partnership, association, corporation, mortgage, stock ownership, or control, in excess of two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in the district of Alaska, the title thereto shall be Forfeiture. forfeited to the United States by proceedings instituted by the Attorney-General of the United States in the courts for that purpose.

SEC. 4. That every patent issued under this Act shall expressly recite the terms and conditions prescribed in sections two and three hereof.

Approved, May 28, 1908 (35 Stat. 424).

LEASING OF COAL LANDS

An Act To provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of
Alaska, and for other purposes

Patents.

lands.

Surveys directed.

Preferences.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to survey the lands of Alaska coal the United States in the Territory of Alaska known to be valuable for their deposits of coal, preference to be given first in favor of surveying lands within those areas commonly known as the Bering River, Matanuska, and Nenana coal fields, and thereafter to such areas or coal fields as lie tributary to established settlements or existing or proposed rail or water transportation lines: Provided, That such surveys shall be executed in accordance with existing laws and rules and regulations gov- Execution under erning the survey of public lands. * *: Provided, That any surveys heretofore made under the authority Use of prior or by the approval of the Department of the Interior surveys.

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existing laws.