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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone

§ 102. Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner

Statutory text

Where oil lands are located under the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.

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. 57–548 · 32 Stat. 825

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 102

    (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original “title thirty-two, chapter six, Revised Statutes of the United States”, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.

Credits

(Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.)

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