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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

§ 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands

Statutory text

No act passed at the first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, granting lands to States or corporations to aid in the construction of roads or for other purposes, or to extend the time of grants made prior to the 30th day of January 1865 shall be so construed as to embrace mineral lands, which in all cases are reserved exclusively to the United States, unless otherwise specially provided in the act or acts making the grant.

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. (R.S. § 2346.)

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 50

    (R.S. § 2346.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 2346.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, referred to in text, was begun , and ended , 13 Stat. 1 to 417, contain legislation passed at such session.

Codification

R.S. § 2346 derived from Res. , No. 10, 13 Stat. 567.

Credits

(R.S. § 2346.)

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