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This document is a Supreme Court case from 1919 regarding a petition for mandamus to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to approve an application for coal claims. The Land Office rejected the application finding the locations did not constitute an "opening or improving" of mines as required by law, having determined the work done was merely for prospecting purposes. The petitioner argued the Land Office misinterpreted the law and prior rulings. The Supreme

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