30 U.S.C. § 30 : US Code - Section 30: Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title

Search 30 U.S.C. § 30 : US Code - Section 30: Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title

Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication,
it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and
shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse
claim, and all proceedings, except the publication of notice and
making and filing of the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until
the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a court of
competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived. It shall be
the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing
his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent
jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession,
and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment;
and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
After such judgment shall have been rendered, the party entitled to
the possession of the claim, or any portion thereof, may, without
giving further notice, file a certified copy of the judgment roll
with the register of the land office, together with the certificate
of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management that the requisite
amount of labor has been expended or improvements made thereon, and
the description required in other cases, and shall pay to the
register $5 per acre for his claim, together with the proper fees,
whereupon the whole proceedings and the judgment roll shall be
certified by the register to the Director of the Bureau of Land
Management, and a patent shall issue thereon for the claim, or such
portion thereof as the applicant shall appear, from the decision of
the court, to rightly possess. If it appears from the decision of
the court that several parties are entitled to separate and
different portions of the claim, each party may pay for his portion
of the claim, with the proper fees, and file the certificate and
description by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management
whereupon the register shall certify the proceedings and judgment
roll to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, as in the
preceding case, and patents shall issue to the several parties
according to their respective rights. Nothing herein contained
shall be construed to prevent the alienation of the title conveyed
by a patent for a mining claim to any person whatever.