Us Code § 671 - Petition for common dumping ground, etc.
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§ 671. Petition for common dumping ground, etc.
The owners of several mining claims situated so as to require a common dumping ground or dam or other restraining works for the debris issuing therefrom in one or more sites may file a joint petition setting forth such facts in addition to the requirements of section 669 of this title; and where the owner of a hydraulic mine or owners of several such mines have and use common dumping sites for impounding debris or as settling reservoirs, which sites are located below the mine of an applicant not entitled to use same, such fact shall also be stated in said petition. Thereupon the same proceedings shall be had as provided for herein.
(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, §11, 27 Stat. 508.)
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