Chapter 1772. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend the coal-land laws to the district of Alaska,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred
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CHAP. 1772.— 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. April 28, 1904.[[S. 2814](/us/bill/58/s/2814).][[Public, No. 204](/us/pl/58/204).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That any person or association Alaska. Coal-land entries. Vol. 31, p. 658, amended.of persons qualified to make entry under the coal-land laws of the United States, who shall have opened or improved a coal mine or 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 Location of developed mineral lands.mines are situated, in rectangular tracts containing forty, eighty, or one hundred 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 Boundaries.
Filing notice.readily and easily traced. And all such locators shall, within one year from the passage of this Act, or within one year from making such location, tile for record in the recording district, and with the register and receiver of the land 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 Patents.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 by Application to be made within three years.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 Price per acre.a payment of the sum of ten dollars per acre for the lands applied for; but no such application shall be allowed until after the applicant has caused a notice of the presentation thereof, embracing a description of the lands, to have been published in a newspaper in the district of Alaska published nearest the location of the premises for a period of Notice to be published.sixty days, and shall have caused copies of such notice, together with a certified copy of the official plat or survey, to have been kept posted Notices to be posted on claim.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,* *Proviso.* Shores of navigable waters.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.
Sec. 3. That during such period of posting and publication, or Adverse claims.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 526 Proceedings.forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, within sixty days after the tiling 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.
Continuance of existing laws. 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. Approved, April 28, 1904.