Chapter 39.
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CHAP. 39.— Joint Resolution To relieve the owners of mining claims who have been mustered into the military or naval service of the United States as officers or enlisted men from performing assessment work during the term of such service. July 17, 1917.[[S. J. Res. 33](/us/bill/65/sjres/33).][[Pub. Res., No. 10](/us/bill/65/pubres/10).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the provisions of section Public lands.Mine assessment work not required of claimants in service during present war.[R.
S., sec. 2324, p. 426](/us/rs/s2324/p426).*Post*, pp. 343, 448.twenty-three hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which require that on each mining claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year, shall not apply to claims or parts of claims owned by officers or enlisted men who have been or may, during the present war with Germany, be mustered into the military or naval service of the United States to serve during their enlistment in the war with Germany, so that no mining claim or any part thereof owned by such person which has been regularly located and recorded shall be subject to forfeiture for nonperformance of the annual assessments during the period of his service or until six months after such owner is mustered out of the service or until six months after his death in the service: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Notice of muster, etc., to be Hied.That the claimant of any mining location, in order to obtain the benefits of this resolution, shall file, or cause to be filed, a notice in the office where the location notice or certificate is recorded, before the expiration of the assessment year during which he is so mustered, giving notice of his muster into the service of the United States and of his desire to hold said mining claim under this resolution.
Approved, July 17, 1917.