(1888 I) Compiled Laws of Utah, Volume I, 1888

Land Laws_page 173

TIMBER AND TIMBER 173 CULTURE directly or indirectly made any agreement or contract in any way or manner with any person or persons whatsoever by which the title which he might acquire from the Government of the United States should inure in whole or in part to the benefit of any person except himself which statement must be verified by the oath of the applicant before the register or the receiver of the land office within the district where the land is situated and if any person taking such oath shall swear falsely in the premises he shall be subject to all the ruse swear pains and penalties of perjury and shall forfeit the money ion which he may have paid for said lands and all right and title to the same and any grant or conveyance which he may have made except in the hands of bona fide purchasers shall be null and void 20 Stat 89 Sec Cir May 1880 CoppL 26 Upon the filing of said statement as provided faitpes 261 in the preceding section the register of the land ofice shallapplication postnotice of such application embracingdescription of the land by legal subdivisions in his office forperiod of sixty days and shall furnish the applicantcopy of the same tor publication at the expense of such applicant innewspaper published nearest the location of the premises forlike period of time and after the expiration of said sixty days if no adverse claim shall have been filed the person desiring to purchase shall furnish to the register of the land office satisfactory evidence first that said notice of the appli-Facts tove cation prepared by the register as aforesaid was duly published innewspaper as herein required secondly that the land is of the character contemplated in this act unoccupied and without improvements other than those excepted either mining or agricultural and that it apparently contains no valuable deposits payment of gold silver cinnabar copper or coal and upon to the officer proper of said land together with the fees receiver as provided for in case of the purchase money of the register and mining claims in the of the one hundred and thirty-seventh section the applicant may be permitted to enter said tract and on the transmission to the General Land Office of the papers and testimony in the case patent shall issue thereon Provided That any person havObiection to ingvalid claim to any portion of the land may object in writing to the issuance ofpatent to lands so held by him