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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

§ 21. Mineral lands reserved

Statutory text

In all cases lands valuable for minerals shall be reserved from sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law.

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. (R.S. § 2318.)

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 21

    (R.S. § 2318.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 2318.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2318 derived from act July 4, 1866, ch. 166, § 5, 14 Stat. 86.

Credits

(R.S. § 2318.)

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USLM identifier /us/usc/t30/s21