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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 263. Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage

Statutory text

In addition to areas of such mineral land which may be included in any such prospecting permits or leases, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may grant to a permittee or lessee of lands containing sodium deposits, and subject to the payment of an annual rental of not less than 25 cents per acre, the exclusive right to use, during the life of the permit or lease, a tract of unoccupied nonmineral public land, not exceeding forty acres in area, for camp sites, refining works, and other purposes connected with and necessary to the proper development and use of the deposits covered by the permit or lease.

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 § 25 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 263

    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 25, 41 Stat. 447.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 25, 41 Stat. 447.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 25. It shall be unlawful to have or possess any liquor or Possession of liquor, etc., unlawful. property designed for the manufacture of liquor intended for use in violating this title or which has been so used, and no property rights shall exist in any such liquor or property. A search warrant may Seizure on search warrants. Vol. 40, p. 228. issue as provided in Title XI of public law numbered 24 of the Sixty-fifth Congress, approved June 15, 1917, and such liquor, the containers thereof, and such property so seized shall be subject to such disposition as the court may make thereof. If it is found that such Destruction if illegally held, etc. liquor or property was so unlawfully held or possessed, or had been so unlawfully used, the liquor, and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of liquor, shall be destroyed, unless the court shall otherwise order. No search warrant shall issue to search any Private dwellings exempt from search. Exception. private dwelling occupied as such unless it is being used for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, or unless it is in part used for some business purpose such as a store, shop, saloon, restaurant, hotel, or Residence rooms in hotels included. boarding house. The term “private dwelling” shall be construed to include the room or rooms used and occupied not transiently but solely as a residence in an apartment house, hotel, or boarding house. The property seized on any such warrant shall not be taken from Seized property not subject to replevin. the officer seizing the same on any writ of replevin or other like process.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 25, 41 Stat. 447.)

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