Is not compulsory upon miners. They are not obliged to procure a United
States patent for their claims. Those who do not, hold exactly the same
relations that they did before its passage, provided no adverse claim
is interposed. The Revised Statutes of the United States, Sections
2,318 to 2,352, of Title “Mineral Lands”; also, “Miscellaneous”
provisions ditto, embracing Sections 910, 2,238, 2,258, 2,386 and
2,406, provide that for