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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 2 — National Forests

§ 482g. Perfection of claims within forest

Statutory text

Valid mining claims within the watershed of the headwaters of the Bonito River in the Lincoln National Forest, within the State of New Mexico, as above described, existing on , and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws of the State of New Mexico, may be perfected under sections 482e and 482f of this title, or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 76–201 § 3 · 53 Stat. 817

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 482g

    (June 13, 1939, ch. 201, § 3, 53 Stat. 818.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 13, 1939, ch. 201, § 3, 53 Stat. 818.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That valid mining claims within the watershed of the head-waters of the Bonito River in the Lincoln National Forest, within the State of New Mexico, as above described, existing on the date of the enactment of this Act and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws of the State of New Mexico, may be perfected under this Act or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 13, 1939, ch. 201, § 3, 53 Stat. 818.)

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