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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 229. Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions

Statutory text

In the case of lands bona fide entered as agricultural, and not withdrawn or classified as mineral at the time of entry, but not including lands claimed under any railroad grant, the entryman or patentee, or assigns, where assignment was made prior to , if the entry has been patented with the mineral right reserved, shall be entitled to a preference right to a permit and to a lease, as herein provided, in case of discovery; and within an area not greater than a township such entryman and patentees, or assigns holding restricted patents may combine their holdings, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of making joint application. Leases executed under this section and embracing only lands so entered shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum as to such areas within the permit as may not be included within the discovery lease to which the permittee is entitled under section 223 of this title.

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. National Prohibition Act

    Pub. L. 66–85 § 20 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 229

    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 20, 41 Stat. 445.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 20, 41 Stat. 445.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 20. Any person who shall be injured in person, property, Injuries by intoxicated persons. Action against liquor seller, etc., for damages. means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person, or by reason of the intoxication of any person, whether resulting in his death or not, shall have a right of action against any person who shall, by unlawfully selling to or unlawfully assisting in procuring liquor for such intoxicated person, have caused or contributed to such intoxication, and in any such action such person shall have a right to recover actual and exemplary damages. In case of the death of In case of death. either party, the action or right of action given by this section shall survive to or against his or her executor or administrator, and the amount so recovered by either wife or child shall be his or her sole and separate property. Such action may be brought in any court of By parents. competent jurisdiction. In any case where parents shall be entitled to such damages, either the father or mother may sue alone therefor, but recovery by one of such parties shall be a bar to suit brought by the other.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 20, 41 Stat. 445.)

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