| 21. | Mineral lands reserved. | |
| 21a. | National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs. | |
| 22. | Lands open to purchase by citizens. | |
| 23. | Length of claims on veins or lodes. | |
| 24. | Proof of citizenship. | |
| 25. | Affidavit of citizenship. | |
| 26. | Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment. | |
| 27. | Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right. | |
| 28. | Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner’s succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure. | |
| 28–1. | Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions. | |
| 28–2. | Definitions. | |
| 28a. | Omitted. | |
| 28b. | Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions. | |
| 28c. | Length and termination of deferment. | |
| 28d. | Performance of deferred work. | |
| 28e. | Recordation of deferment. | |
| 28f. | Fee. | |
| 28g. | Location fee. | |
| 28h. | Co-ownership. | |
| 28i. | Failure to pay. | |
| 28j. | Other requirements. | |
| 28k. | Regulations. | |
| 28l. | Collection of mining law administration fees. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 31. | Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim. | |
| 32. | Findings by jury; costs. | |
| 33. | Existing rights. | |
| 34. | Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls. | |
| 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. | |
| 36. | Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements. | |
| 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. | |
| 38. | Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent. | |
| 39. | Surveyors of mining claims. | |
| 40. | Verification of affidavits. | |
| 41. | Intersecting or crossing veins. | |
| 42. | Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment. | |
| 43. | Conditions of sale by local legislature. | |
| 44 , 45. | Omitted. | |
| 46. | Additional land districts and officers. | |
| 47. | Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property. | |
| 48. | Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands. | |
| 49. | Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands. | |
| 49a. | Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State. | |
| 49b. | Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska. | |
| 49c. | Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims. | |
| 49d. | Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized. | |
| 49e. | Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury. | |
| 49f. | Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements. | |
| 50. | Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands. | |
| 51. | Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers’ possession. | |
| 52. | Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights. | |
| 53. | Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title. | |
| 54. | Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities. | |
