...mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States were declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase by citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...qualifications of voters,) the words "white male inhabitant" and insert the words: •• male citizen of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such :" which was agreed to — yeas 22, nays 17. us follows : YEAS — Messrs. Brown. Chandler, Clark,...

...both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase. (§ 2319, Revised Statutes ; see also § 901, Revised Statutes ; Robertson v. Smith, 1 Montana, 410.)...

...deposits in land belonging to the United States shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found, to occupation...the United States and those who have declared their intentions to become such. The effect of this provision must be to exclude all persons not belonging...

...that all mineral deposits on lands belonging to the United States were free and open to exploration, and the lands in which they are found to occupation...purchase by citizens of the United States and those who had declared their intention to become such, subject to regulations prescribed by law, and to the rules...

...because, under § 2319, Rev. Stat., the public lands of the United States are only open to exploration, X such. In Manuel v. Wulff, 162 US 505, 38 L. -ed. 532, 14 Sup. Ct* Rep. 651, this court sustained the...

...the Revised Statutes, the right to purchase mineral deposits In the public lands was conferred upon "citizens of the United States and those who have declared their Intention to become such." Section 2321, however, In regulating the mode by which the fact of citizenship should be established,...

...mining law of the United States even limits the transfer of mineral lands belonging to the Union to "citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intention to become such," while the Mexican mining laws allow foreigners to own and develop mines on the нате terms...

...exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they were found, to occupation and purchase bycitizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, did not preclude a priva te corporation, formed under the laws of a state, whose members were...

...unsurveyed, £f cnm°ZePnusrcba8e are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation...those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs and rules of miners in...