A mortgage for a good and valuable consideration upon possessory claims to public lands, all buildings and improvements upon such lands, and all quartz and mining claims, acknowledged in manner and form as mortgages upon real property are required by law to be acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the recorder in the county in which the property is situated, shall have the same effect against third persons as mortgages upon real property.
[76:9:1861; A 1935, 253; 1931 NCL § 1547] — (NRS A 1965, 924)