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30 U.S.C. § 31 — Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
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The adverse claim required by [section 30 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section30&num=0&edition=prelim) may be verified by the oath of any duly authorized agent or attorney in fact of the adverse claimant cognizant of the facts stated; and the adverse claimant, if residing or at the time being beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make oath to the adverse claim before the clerk of any court of record of the United States or of the State or Territory where the adverse claimant may then be, or before any notary public of such State or Territory.
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The adverse claim required by [section 30 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section30&num=0&edition=prelim) may be verified by the oath of any duly authorized agent or attorney in fact of the adverse claimant cognizant of the facts stated; and the adverse claimant, if residing or at the time being beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make oath to the adverse claim before the clerk of any court of record of the United States or of the State or Territory where the adverse claimant may then be, or before any notary public of such State or Territory.
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Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim, and all proceedings, except the publication of notice and making and filing of the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a court of competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived. It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim. After such judgment shall have been rendered, the party entitled to the possession of the claim, or any portion thereof, may, without giving further notice, file a certified copy of the judgment roll with the register of the land office, together with the certificate of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management that the requisite amount of labor has been expended or improvements made thereon, and the description required in other cases, and shall pay to the register $5 per acre for his claim, together with the proper fees, whereupon the whole proceedings and the judgment roll shall be certified by the register to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, and a patent shall issue thereon for the claim, or such portion thereof as the applicant shall appear, from the decision of the court, to rightly possess. If it appears from the decision of the court that several parties are entitled to separate and different portions of the claim, each party may pay for his portion of the claim, with the proper
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 30
Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, set out in the Appendix to Title
5.
See also Transfer of Functions note set out under sec-
tion 1 of this title.
§ 30. Adverse claims; oath of claimants; req-
uisites; waiver; stay of land office pro-
ceedings; judicial determination of right of
possession; successful claimants’ filing of
judgment roll, certificate of labor, and de-
scription of claim in land office, and acreage
and fee payments; issuance of patents for en-
tire or partial claims upon certification of
land office proceedings and judgment roll;
alienation of patent title
Where an adverse claim is filed during the pe-
riod of publication, it shall be upon oath of the
person or persons making the same, and shall
show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such
adverse claim, and all proceedings, except the
publication of notice and making and filing of
the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until the
controversy shall have been settled or decided
by a court of competent jurisdiction, or the ad-
verse claim waived. It shall be the duty of the
adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing
his claim, to commence proceedings in a court
of competent jurisdiction, to determine the
question of the right of possession, and pros-
ecute the same with reasonable diligence to
final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a
waiver of his adverse claim. After such judg-
ment shall have been rendered, the party enti-
tled to the possession of the claim, or any por-
tion thereof, may, without giving further notice,
file a certified copy of the judgment roll with
the register of the land office, together with the
certificate of the Director of the Bureau of Land
Management that the requisite amount of labor
has been ex
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