Volume 72
Public Law 85–736
To amend section 2324 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to change the period for doing annual assessment work on unpatented mineral claims so that it will run from September 1 of one year to September 1 of the succeeding year, and to make such change effective with respect to the assessment work year commencing in 1959.
Approved August 23, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 2324 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, to change the period for doing annual assessment work on unpatented mineral claims so that it will run from September 1 of one year to September 1 of the succeeding year, and to make such change effective with respect to the assessment work year commencing in 1959.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2324 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (30 U. S. C. 28), is amended by striking out “1st day of July” and inserting in lieu thereof “1st day of September”.
Sec. 2.
Notwithstanding the amendment made by the first section of this Act, the period commencing in 1957 for the performance of annual assessment work under section 2324 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, shall end at 12 o’clock meridian on the 1st day of July 1958, and the period commencing in 1958 for the performance of such annual assessment work shall commence at 12 o’clock meridian on the 1st day of July 1958, and shall continue to 12 o’clock meridian on September 1, 1959.
Approved August 23, 1958.