ants. the expense of the claimant, the register of such land office shall cause notice of such application to be published for at least sixty days in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest the claim within the district of Alaska, and the applicant shall at the time of filing such field notes, plat, and application to purchase in the land office, as aforesaid, cause a copy of such plat, together with the application to purchase, to be posted upon the claim, and such plat and application shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place on such claim continuously for at least sixty days, and during such period of posting and Adverse claimpublication or within thirty days thereafter any person, corporation, or association, having or asserting any adverse interest in, or claim to, the tract of land or any part thereof sought to be purchased, may file in the land office where such application is pending, under oath, an adverso claim setting forth the nature and extent thereof, and such adverse claimant shall, within sixty days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin action to quiet title in a court of competent jurisdiction within the District of Alaska, and thereafter no patent shall issue for such claim until the final adjudication of the rigats of the parties, and such patent shall then be issued in conformity with the final decree of the court. Cases of "suspended entries of suspended pre Aug. 3, 1846, 9 BOARD OF EQUITABLE ADJUDICATION. Revised Statutes.-Secs. 2450-2457-Entries on which there has been substantial compliance with the law but lacking in some formality resulting from ignorance, accident, or mistake satisfactorily explained, to be decided on principles of equity and justice under regulations of the Commissioner, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Attorney General. UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. SEC. 2450. The Commissioner of the General Land public lands" and Office is authorized to decide upon principles of equity emption land and justice, as recognized in courts of equity, and in acclaims." cordance with regulations to be settled by the Secretary S..51: Mar. 3, 1953. of the Interior, the Attorney-General, and the Commis26, 1856, 11 S., 22; sioner, conjointly, consistently with such principles, all June 1, 1871, 19 S., cases of suspended entries of public lands, and of sus19 S., 244. pended preemption land claims, and to adjudge in what cases patents shall issue upon the same. 10 S., 258: June 50; Feb. 27, 1877, Adjudications under above; how approved. Aug. 3, 1846, 9 SEC. 2451. Every such adjudication shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-GenB., 51: Feb. 27, eral, acting as a board; and shall operate only to divest 1877, 19 S., 244. the United States of the title of the lands embraced thereby, without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants. Decisions to be arranged into classes. Aug. 3, 1846, 9 8., 51. Patents to issue for lands in the lands in second * * * SEC. 2453. The Commissioner shall arrange his decisions into two classes; the first class to embrace all such cases of equity as may be finally confirmed by the board, and the second class to embrace all such cases as the board reject and decide to be invalid. SEC. 2454. For all lands covered by claims which are first class, and placed in the first class, patents shall issue to the claimclass to revert ants; and all lands embraced by claims placed in the to the United second class shall ipso facto revert to, and become part of, the public domain. States. Ibid. Patents surren dered and new ones issued certain cases. 8., 258. SEC. 2456. Where patents have been already issued in on entries which are confirmed by the officers who are Mar. 3, 1853, 10 constituted the board of adjudication, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the canceling of the outstanding patent, is authorized to issue a new patent, on such confirmation, to the person who made the entry, his heirs or assigns. |