Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone
§ 171. Disposal as agricultural lands
Statutory text
Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, all public lands within the State of Alabama, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. All lands which had been reported to the General Land Office prior to , as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale.
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. 47–118 · 22 Stat. 58
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 171
Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from act , which contained an additional provision relating to pending homesteads, which was omitted because of its temporary nature.
Amendments
1920—The exception clause was inserted at beginning of this section because of act , which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by such act.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
General Land Office abolished and functions transferred to Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, and regulations thereunder. See note set out under section 1 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Credits
1883–1920 · 2 acts
- 1883Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487
- 1920Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)