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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry

§ 146. Patents to purchasers of lands withdrawn

Statutory text

Upon payment of the purchase price the Secretary of the Interior is authorized by appropriate patent to convey all the right, title, and interest in and to said lands to the purchaser at said sale, subject, however, to such reservations, limitations, or conditions as said Secretary may deem proper: Provided, That not over one hundred and sixty acres shall be sold to any one person: Provided further, That any patent issued hereunder shall contain a reservation to the United States of all oil, gas, coal, and other mineral.

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. 66–27 § 2 · 41 Stat. 271

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 146

    (Jan. 26, 1921, ch. 27, § 2, 41 Stat. 1089.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Jan. 26, 1921, ch. 27, § 2, 41 Stat. 1089.)

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

Credits

(Jan. 26, 1921, ch. 27, § 2, 41 Stat. 1089.)

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