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Volume 68 · 56

Public Law 83–337

To provide for the relief of certain reclamation homestead entrymen.

Approved April 17, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for the relief of certain reclamation homestead entrymen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That where reclamation homestead entry was made prior to July 17, 1914, pursuant to the Act of June 17, 1902 ( 32 Stat. 389, 43 U. S. C., sec. 431), as amended and supplemented, for lands in the Northport Division or the Inter-state Division of the North Platte Reclamation Project, and after such entry the lands have been or are hereafter withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for any of the minerals named in the Act of July 17, 1914 (38 Stat. 509, 30 U. S. C., sec. 121–123), the Act of March 4, 1933 (47 Stat. 1570, 30 U. S. C., sec. 124), or the Act of March 3, 1909 ( 35 Stat. 844, 30 U. S. C., sec. 81), the patent shall not contain a reservation of such minerals. If any such mineral deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified or reported as being valuable have been leased by the United States, such patent shall be made subject to the rights of the lessee, but the patentee shall be subrogated to the rights of the United States under the lease.

Approved April 17, 1954.

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