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GENERAL LAWS. 417
posed or from such mine or mining claim of any character therein defined.
If any locator shall fail to post the location notice or to file with
the county clerk the location notice and affidavit, or shall fail to file with
the county surveyor the application for survey and affidavit hereinbefore
required, or shall fail to file with the Commissioner of the General Land
Offiice the application, affidavit, file notice and. plat hereinbefore required;
or shall fail to comply with any of the terms or conditions herein required,
such claim shall be subject to forfeiture by the Commissioner of
the General Land Office by an endorsement upon such application theretofore
filed of the word "Forfeited," signed officially by him, and thereupon
all rights in such mining claim and rights (if the locator or claimant
in such mining claim shall utterly cease and determine and the same shall
be subject to relocation; provided that the Comraissioner of the General
Land Office may, upon satisfactory showing to him why such conditions
or requirements were not complied with, reinstate such claim upon the
written request of one or more of the locators, claimants, or owners;
filed in his office; provided, further, that no rights of any others have
intervened at the date of filing of such request in the General Land
Office. One interested in the claim at the date it was forfeited shall
not be eligible to relocate or file upon the same land or in behalf of any
other person within a period of six months next ensuing after such
forfeiture, and any attempt to make such location by such person shall
be wholly void.
SEC. 21. Any locator, claimant, or owner of any mining claim under
this Act is authorized to fell and remove for building and mining purposes
any timber or any trees growing or being upon any unoccupied
public lands under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of
the General Land Office may, from time to time, provide for the protection
of timber and other growth upon suc. lands and such other
purposes.
SEC. 22. Nothing in this Act contained shall ever be construed to
destroy, invalidate or impair any valid claim, right or interest existing
in, to or concerning any lands whatsoever at the date of the passage of
this Act, or of any pre-emptor, purchaser, claimant, settler, locator or any
other person whatsoever.
SEC. 23. The locator or owner of a. mining claim shall have the
right to occupy within the limits of his claim so much of the surface
ground as is strictly necessary for the use and exploitation of the mineral
deposits and for the buildings and works necessary for mining operations
and for the treating and smelting of the ore produced on such claims
and to occupy within and without the limits of his claim the necessary
land for right of way, for ingress and egress to and from his claim, for
roadways, or railways; provided, that if the locator or owner of the
mineral right cannot agree with the owner or lessee of the surface right
in regard to the acquiring of same and in regard to the compensation
for the injury incident to the opening and the working of such mine
and the access thereto, he may apply to the judge of the county court
of the county in which such mining claim is located by filing a written
petition setting forth with a sufficient description the property and surface
right sought to be taken and the purpose for which the same is to be
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/427/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .