Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone
§ 161. Entry of building-stone lands; previous law unaffected
Statutory text
Any person authorized to enter lands under the mining laws of the United States may enter lands that are chiefly valuable for building stone under the provisions of the law in relation to placer mineral claims. Lands reserved for the benefit of the public schools or donated to any State shall not be subject to entry under this section. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to repeal section 471 of title 16 relating to the establishment of national forests.
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.
Pub. L. 52–375 · 27 Stat. 348
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 161
(Aug. 4, 1892, ch. 375, §§ 1, 3, 27 Stat. 348.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 4, 1892, ch. 375, §§ 1, 3, 27 Stat. 348.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 471 of title 16, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), , 90 Stat. 2792, effective on and after .
Codification
First two sentences of this section are from section 1 and last sentence of this section is from section 3 of act .
Credits
(Aug. 4, 1892, ch. 375, §§ 1, 3, 27 Stat. 348.)