Chapter 1796. To amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to lands
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CHAP. 1796.— An Act To amend section twenty-three hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to lands. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 13298](/us/bill/33/hr/13298).][[Public, No. 228](/us/pl/33/228).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twenty-threePublic lands.[R. S., sec. 2327, p. 427](/us/rs/s2327/p427), amended. hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be. and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2327. The description of vein or lode claims upon surveyedDescription of mining vein or lode claims. lands shall designate the location of the claims with reference to the lines of the public survey, but need not conform therewith; but where patents have been or shall be issued for claims upon unsurveyed lands, the surveyors-general, in extending the public survey, shall adjust the same to the boundaries of said patented claims so as in no case to interfere with or change the true location of such claims as they are officially established upon the ground, Where patents have issued for mineralPatents to conform to official monuments. lands, those lands only shall be segregated and shall be deemed to be patented which are bounded by the lines actually marked, defined, and established upon the ground by the monuments of the official survey upon which the patent grant is based, and surveyors-general in executing subsequent patent surveys, whether upon surveyed or unsurveyed lands, shall be governed accordingly.
The said monuments shall at allMonuments to govern descriptions. times constitute the highest authority as to what land is patented, and in case of any conflict between the said monuments of such patented claims and the descriptions of said claims in the patents issued there-for the monuments on the ground shall govern, and erroneous or inconsistent descriptions or calls in the patent descriptions shall give way thereto.” " Approved, April 28, 1904. To change and fix the time for holding the district and circuit courts for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee.
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Chapter 1796
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