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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 205. Consolidation of leases

Statutory text

If, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, the public interest will be subserved thereby, lessees holding under lease areas not exceeding the maximum permitted under this chapter may consolidate their leases through the surrender of the original leases and the inclusion of such areas in a new lease of not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of contiguous lands.

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. War Prohibition Act

    Pub. L. 66–85 § 5 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 205

    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 5, 41 Stat. 439.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 5, 41 Stat. 439.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, his assistants, Powers of officials to enforce. agents, and inspectors, and all other officers of the United States whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws, shall have all the power for the enforcement of the War Prohibition Act or any provisions thereof which is conferred by law for the enforcement of existing laws relating to the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors under the laws of the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 5, 41 Stat. 439.)

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