30 U.S.C. § 35 : US Code - Section 35: Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land

Search 30 U.S.C. § 35 : US Code - Section 35: Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land

Claims usually called "placers," including all forms of deposit,
excepting veins of quartz, or other rock in place, shall be subject
to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and
upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims;
but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United
States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal
subdivisions of the public lands. And where placer claims are upon
surveyed lands, and conform to legal subdivisions, no further
survey or plat shall be required, and all placer-mining claims
located after the 10th day of May 1872, shall conform as near as
practicable with the United States system of public-land surveys,
and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such
location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual
claimant; but where placer claims cannot be conformed to legal
subdivisions, survey and plat shall be made as on unsurveyed lands;
and where by the segregation of mineral land in any legal
subdivision a quantity of agricultural land less than forty acres
remains, such fractional portion of agricultural land may be
entered by any party qualified by law, for homestead purposes.