30 U.S.C. § 29 : US Code - Section 29: Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits

Search 30 U.S.C. § 29 : US Code - Section 29: Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits

A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable deposits
may be obtained in the following manner: Any person, association,
or corporation authorized to locate a claim 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, having claimed and located a piece of
land for such purposes, who has, or have, complied with the terms
of 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, may file in the
proper land office an application for a patent, under oath, showing
such compliance, together with a plat and field notes of the claim
or claims in common, made by or under the direction of the Director
of the Bureau of Land Management, showing accurately the boundaries
of the claim or claims, which shall be distinctly marked by
monuments on the ground, and shall post a copy of such plat,
together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a
conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the
filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit
of at least two persons that such notice has been duly posted, and
shall file a copy of the notice in such land office, and shall
thereupon be entitled to a patent for the land, in the manner
following: The register of the land office, upon the filing of such
application, plat, field notes, notices, and affidavits, shall
publish a notice that such application has been made, for the
period of sixty days, in a newspaper to be by him designated as
published nearest to such claim; and he shall also post such notice
in his office for the same period. The claimant at the time of
filing this application, or at any time thereafter, within the
sixty days of publication, shall file with the register a
certificate of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management that
$500 worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the
claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such
further description by such reference to natural objects or
permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an
accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the
expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file
his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in
a conspicuous place on the claim during such period of publication.
If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register of the
proper land office at the expiration of the sixty days of
publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to
a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of $5 per acre,
and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from
third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it
be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of
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. Where the claimant
for a patent is not a resident of or within the land district
wherein the vein, lode, ledge, or deposit sought to be patented is
located, the application for patent and the affidavits required to
be made in this section by the claimant for such patent may be made
by his, her, or its authorized agent, where said agent is
conversant with the facts sought to be established by said
affidavits.