Volume 71
Public Law 85–68
To amend the Act of August 11, 1955, to extend the time during which annual assessment work on unpatented mining claims subject to that Act may be made.
Approved June 29, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of August 11, 1955, to extend the time during which annual assessment work on unpatented mining claims subject to that Act may be made.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of
30 USC 541a note.
June 29, 1956 (Public Law 636, Eighty-fourth Congress; 705 Stat 438), is amended by inserting “(a)” after “That”, by striking out “July 1, 1957” and inserting in lieu thereof “July 1, 1958”, and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(b) The time during which labor must be performed, or improvements made pursuant to the provisions of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (30 U. S. C. 28), on any other unpatented mining claim subject to the Act of August 11, 1955 (Public Law 357, Eighty-fourth Congress; 69 Stat. 679; 30 U. S. C. 541–541i), for the period commencing July 1, 1956, is hereby extended to 12 o’clock meridian, July 1, 1958.”
Approved June 29, 1957.