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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone

§ 75. Conflicting claims upon coal lands; rules and regulations

Statutory text

In case of conflicting claims upon coal lands where the improvements shall be commenced, after the third day of March, 1873, priority of possession and improvement, followed by proper filing and continued good faith, shall determine the preference right to purchase. And also where improvements have already been made prior to the third day of March, 1873, division of the land claimed may be made by legal subdivisions, to include, as near as may be, the valuable improvements of the respective parties. The Director of the Bureau of Land Management is authorized to issue all needful rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section and sections 71 to 74 of this title.

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. § 2351

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 75

    R.S. § 2351

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

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 2351

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

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2351 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, § 5, 17 Stat. 608.

Transfer of Functi

Executive Documentsons

Indian Lands Excepted

See note set out under section 71 of this title.

Credits

1946 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 2351
  2. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.
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(R.S. § 2351; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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