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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

§ 87. Statements in application; patents

Statutory text

Any applicant for lands mentioned in section 86 of this title shall state in his application that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 86 to 89 of this title, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be entitled to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.

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. 64–133 § 2 · 39 Stat. 944

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 87

    (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That any applicant for such lands shall state in his application Conditions of applications. that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of this Act, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of this Act shall be entitled Issue of conditional patent. to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)

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