Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under sections
21,
22 to
24,
26 to
28,
29,
30,
33 to
48,
50 to
52,
71 to
76 of this title and section
661 of title
43, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in such sections shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent.
Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under sections
21,
22 to
24,
26 to
28,
29,
30,
33 to
48,
50 to
52,
71 to
76 of this title and section
661 of title
43, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in such sections shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent.
Source
(R.S. § 2332.)
References in Text
Sections
21,
22 to
24,
26 to
28,
29,
30,
33 to
48,
50 to
52,
71 to
76 of this title and section
661 of title
43, referred to in text, were in the original “this chapter”, meaning chapter 6 of title
32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to
2352.
Codification
R.S. § 2332 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 13,16 Stat. 217.
Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section
1303 of Title
43, Public Lands.
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