Volume 19
Public Law 44–91
To exclude the States of Missouri and Kansas from the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States” approved May tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Approved May 5, 1876
Statutory text
An act
To exclude the States of Missouri and Kansas from the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States” approved May tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That within the States of Missouri and Kansas deposits of coal, iron, lead, or other mineral be, and they are hereby, excluded from the operation of the act entitled “An act to promote the development of mining resources of the United States”
R. S., 2319 to 2337, pp. 427 to 431.
approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two and all lands in said States shall be subject to disposal as agricultural lands.
Approved, May 5, 1876.