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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

§ 25. Affidavit of citizenship

Statutory text

Applicants for mineral patents, if residing beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make any oath or affidavit required for proof of citizenship before the clerk of any court of record or before any notary public of any State or Territory.

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. Pub. L. 47–106 § 2 · 22 Stat. 49

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 25

    (Apr. 26, 1882, ch. 106, § 2, 22 Stat. 49.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 26, 1882, ch. 106, § 2, 22 Stat. 49.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That applicants for mineral patents, if residing beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make any oath or affidavit required for proof of citizenship before the clerk of any court of record or before any notary public of any State or Territory.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 26, 1882, ch. 106, § 2, 22 Stat. 49.)

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