Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
§ 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
Statutory text
Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, within the States of Missouri and Kansas deposits of coal, iron, lead, or other mineral are excluded from the operation of sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title, and all lands in said States shall be subject to disposal as agricultural lands.
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. 44–91 · 19 Stat. 52
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 49
May 5, 1876, ch. 91, 19 Stat. 52
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 5, 1876, ch. 91, 19 Stat. 52
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title, referred to in text, were in the original “the act entitled ‘An act to promote the development of mining resources of the United States’ approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two”, meaning act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, popularly known as the Mining Act of 1872. That act was incorporated into the Revised Statutes as R.S. §§ 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344, which are classified to sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title. For complete classification of R.S. §§ 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344 to the Code, see Tables.
Amendments
1920—The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act , which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by such act.
Credits
1876–1920 · 2 acts
- 1876May 5, 1876, ch. 91, 19 Stat. 52
- 1920Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.
Show as published
(May 5, 1876, ch. 91, 19 Stat. 52; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)