Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry
§ 144. Entries on land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas validated
Statutory text
Entries existing on , and allowed prior to , under the Stock Raising Homestead Act of (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862) [43 U.S.C. 291 et seq.], for land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas, but not otherwise reserved or withdrawn, are validated, if otherwise regular: Provided, That at date of entry the land was not within the limits of the geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field.
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. 68–147 § 12 · 43 Stat. 115
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 144
(Feb. 7, 1925, ch. 147, § 12, 43 Stat. 812.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 7, 1925, ch. 147, § 12, 43 Stat. 812.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Stock Raising Homestead Act of , referred to in text, is act Dec. 29, 1916, ch. 9, 39 Stat. 862, which was classified generally to subchapter X (§ 291 et seq.) of chapter 7 of this title and was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, §§ 702, 704(a), , 90 Stat. 2787, 2792, except for sections 9 and 11 which are classified to sections 299 and 301, respectively, of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 291 of this title and Tables.
Credits
(Feb. 7, 1925, ch. 147, § 12, 43 Stat. 812.)