Chapter 442. To modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 442.— An Act To modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 4148](/us/bill/68/hr/4148).][[Public, No. 560](/us/pl/68/560).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alaska.Placer mining claims in.Vol. 37, p. 243, amend-ed. That section 4 of the Act of Congress of August 1, 1912, section 129d Compiled Laws of Alaska, entitled “An Act to modify and amend the mining laws in their application to the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” be amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 4. Area of claims limited. 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 *Proviso*.Allowance for isolated adjoining claims.at right angles to its longest side: *Provided*, That where any isolated parcel of placer ground lies between and 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.
” Approved, March 3, 1925.