Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits
§ 271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for sulphur in lands belonging to the United States located in the States of Louisiana and New Mexico for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall be not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land in reasonably compact form.
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.
Pub. L. 69–158 § 1 · 44 Stat. 301
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 271
Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
1932—Act , substituted “States of Louisiana and New Mexico” for “State of Louisiana”.
Credits
1926–1932 · 2 acts
- 1926Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301
- 1932July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.
Show as published
(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.)