30 U.S.C. § 37 : US Code - Section 37: Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent

Search 30 U.S.C. § 37 : US Code - Section 37: Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent

Where the same person, association, or corporation is in
possession of a placer claim, and also a vein or lode included
within the boundaries thereof, application shall be made for a
patent for the placer claim, with the statement that it includes
such vein or lode, and in such case a patent shall issue for the
placer claim, subject to the provisions 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, including such vein or lode, upon the
payment of $5 per acre for such vein or lode claim, and twenty-five
feet of surface on each side thereof. The remainder of the placer
claim, or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim,
shall be paid for at the rate of $2.50 per acre, together with all
costs of proceedings; and where a vein or lode, such as is
described in section 23 of this title, is known to exist within the
boundaries of a placer claim, an application for a patent for such
placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or
lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the
claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein
or lode claim; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a
placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall
convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the
boundaries thereof.
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