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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

§ 82. New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed in cases where patents for public lands have been issued to entrymen under the provisions of sections 81 and 83 to 85 of this title, reserving to the United States all coal deposits therein, and lands so patented are subsequently classified as noncoal in character, to issue new or supplemental patents without such reservation.

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. Pub. L. 63–55 · 38 Stat. 335

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 82

    (Apr. 14, 1914, ch. 55, 38 Stat. 335.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 14, 1914, ch. 55, 38 Stat. 335.)

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Credits

(Apr. 14, 1914, ch. 55, 38 Stat. 335.)

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