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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 2 — National Forests

§ 482l. Perfection of mining claims within forest

Statutory text

Valid mining claims within the said lands, 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 482j to 482l 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. 81–190 § 3 · 63 Stat. 168

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 482l

    (June 10, 1949, ch. 190, § 3, 63 Stat. 169.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 10, 1949, ch. 190, § 3, 63 Stat. 169.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That valid mining claims within the said lands, existing on Valid mining claims. 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 10, 1949, ch. 190, § 3, 63 Stat. 169.)

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