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30 U.S.C. § 33 — Existing rights
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All patents for mining claims upon veins or lodes issued prior to May 10, 1872, shall convey all the rights and privileges conferred by 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) where no adverse rights existed on the 10th day of May, 1872.
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All patents for mining claims upon veins or lodes issued prior to May 10, 1872, shall convey all the rights and privileges conferred by 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) where no adverse rights existed on the 10th day of May, 1872.
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Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 35
§ 32. Findings by jury; costs
If, in any action brought pursuant to section
30 of this title, title to the ground in con-
troversy shall not be established by either
party, the jury shall so find, and judgment shall
be entered according to the verdict. In such case
costs shall not be allowed to either party, and
the claimant shall not proceed in the land office
or be entitled to a patent for the ground in con-
troversy until he shall have perfected his title.
(Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 140, 21 Stat. 505.)
§ 33. Existing rights
All patents for mining claims upon veins or
lodes issued prior to May 10, 1872, shall convey
all the rights and privileges conferred by sec-
tions 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 where no adverse rights existed on the 10th
day of May, 1872.
(R.S. § 2328.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
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, referred
to in text, were in the original ‘‘this chapter’’, meaning
chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting
of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.
CODIFICATION
R.S. § 2328 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, § 9,
17 Stat. 94.
Provision of this section respecting prosecution of ap-
plications for patents for mining claims in General
Land Office, pending May 10, 1872, was omitted from the
Code.
§ 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and
unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to
govern conflicting calls
The description of vein or lode claims upon
surveyed lands shall designate the location of
the claims with reference to the lines of the pub-
lic survey, but need not conform therewith; but
where pat
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