Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
§ 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
Statutory text
The general mining laws of the United States so far as they are applicable to placer-mining claims, as prior to , extended to the Territory of Alaska, are declared to be in full force and effect in said Territory: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to change or affect the rights acquired by locators or owners of placer-mining claims prior to , located in said Territory under act (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act (43 Stat. 1118).
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. 73–211 § 2 · 48 Stat. 663
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 49b
(May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 2, 48 Stat. 663.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 2, 48 Stat. 663.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the general mining laws of the United States so far Federal mining laws, applicable to placer claims effective in Alaska. as they are applicable to placer mining claims, as heretofore extended to the Territory of Alaska, and amendments thereto, except those repealed by this Act, are declared to be in full force and effect in said Territory: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to change Proviso. Existing rights. or affect the rights acquired by locators or owners of placer-mining claims heretofore located in said Territory under the Act herein repealed.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act (43 Stat. 1118), referred to in text, were repealed by section 1 of act . See sections 35 to 37 and 49b of this title.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to sections 119 and 381a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Act May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 3, 48 Stat. 663, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section] shall take effect thirty days subsequent to the date of convening of the first regular session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature which is held after the passage of this Act [].”
Executive Documents
Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, , 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, , 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Credits
(May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 2, 48 Stat. 663.)