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Show 4-O68 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. >' HI/\L NONMINERAL AFFIDAVIT. U. S. LAND OFFICE-....--.-™Y.eSfifi.U..JIteh....................... No...--Thto affidavit can b« iwom to only on penonal knowledge, and can not ba made on Information and bcllel. .- „.„.-.___„.---., being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that 1 am the identical person -.._...-....„......-.-.-.--------, who is an applicant for Government title ....,............„---.....-..„-.-.....---.---.-.------.--------.----.--.---..----------.------.-.-., Sect ion. ..££..., Township........4...!*......., Range.....(LH............, .-JJ.in-t9..........Sp.e.aial............Meridian; that I am well acquainted with the character of said described land, and with each and every legal subdivision thereof, having frequently passed over the same; that my personal knowledge of said land is such as to enable me to testify understandingly with regard thereto; that there is not, to my knowledge, within the limits thereof, any vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, or copper, or any deposit of coal; that there is not within the limits of said land, to my knowledge, any placer, cement, gravel, or other valuable mineral deposit; that the land contains no salt spring, or deposits of salt in any form sufficient to render it chiefly valuable therefor; that no portion of said land is claimed for mining purposes under the local customs or rules of miners or otherwise; that no por tion of said land is worked for mineral during any part of the year by any person or persons; that said land is essentially nonmineral land, and that the application therefor is not made for the purpose of fraudu lently obtaining title to mineral land, but with the object of secur ing said land for agricultural purposes; that the said land is not occupied and improved by any Indian, and that my post-office address f I?aBtttcfr Cqitnty» utnh. (Sign hero, with full Christ In n name.) 8f^- NOTK.- Every person mvearing falsely to the alx>ve ullidavit will bo punched as provided by law for such offnnse. See. 125, U. S. Criminal Code, lielow.) (St>e I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing affidavit was read to or by affiant in my presence before affiant affixed signature thereto; that affiant i«x.^Aax«»xjpBa»Oinaiic^xk»fiW«xXxsrx has been satisfactorily identified before me by~---JLCSiLJUj!^JP_erja^ (Give full name mid |x>«U>m<u' udilnwi.) ); that I verily believe affiant to be a credible witness and the iden tical person hereinbefore described, and that said affidavit was duly subscribed and sworn to before me, at my office, in_-i'.ZtP?.' land district , this .....-l- - - - ...-..- day of .....O^'DHiix-----.--.--., 19..U1. (OfBclal designation of officer.) UNITED STATES CRIMINAL CODE,-CHAP. 6. SBC. 125. Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any <-asc in which ft law of the United States authorizes an oath to l>e administered, that lie will testify, declare, deiiow, or certify truly, or that any writ ton testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him auhKribed, in true, shall willfully and contrary to mirh nnth f*t;ito or witacrilic ammUff-i" 1 nWttPr which ''f> flni"» »• l ' "I'm-n fn Ko Ir- |
