United States Land Office Registers and Receivers are permitted by law to charge the following fees:
| Homestead or pre-emption declaratory statement | $1.00 |
| On final certificate for each 160 acres | 5.00 |
| ” ” ” 320 ” | 10.00 |
| ” ” ” section, or 640 acres | 15.00 |
| Locations by States under grants, for each 160 acres | 1.00 |
| For superintending public land sales | 5.00 |
| For acting on application for patent or adverse mineral claim | 5.00 |
| For testimony either in mineral or agricultural land cases, taken in writing, for claimants, each 100 words | .15 |
Under the laws of Arizona the County Recorders are authorized and required to keep a record of all mines and mineral deposits that are located. For this work they are entitled to receive for recording each claim:
| Not to exceed one folio | $1.00 |
| For each additional folio | .20 |
It is also provided by act of territorial legislature, approved November 9th, 1864, that persons in the military service of the United States may locate mineral claims, all local or district regulations to the contrary notwithstanding.
Under the Act of December 30th, 1865, in relation to placer mines and mining, it is provided that in the county of Yuma, persons who in locating placers shall place, for the purpose of mining thereon, a pump or pumps with a capacity of 100 gallons per minute, may be entitled to locate of placer land not to exceed 160 acres. This privilege is not to include placer land which can be worked by water brought in ditches or flumes.
Under Act of September 30th, 1867, it is provided that joint mining claims may be segregated, when any of the owners thereof refuse or fail to join in working them, after notices in the county or other newspaper published nearest thereto, for the period of four weeks. After such notice, the parties issuing may apply to the District Court; notice is then posted conspicuously by the clerk, for requiring the delinquents to appear within sixty days, and show why the prayer should not be granted. At the end of this last period two commissioners may be appointed, who choose a third; and they examine and report in writing. A decree shall issue in accord with the report. Thirty days are allowed for an appeal to the Supreme Court.
All grants of lands within the Territory, individual or corporate, whether held under Mexican or United States titles, must be recorded in the office of the County Recorder where situated. If not so entered, they are declared null and void. It is provided also that settlers shall be protected in the occupancy, use and improvement of 340 acres of public lands.
Arizona Mine Mills.
Within the past few months there have been brought into Arizona the following quartz mills, all of which are now being set up, or are already in operation: