30-U.S.C.-48
§48 – Lands In Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; Sale and Disposal As Public Lands
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Title 30 > Chapter 2 > Section 48
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- Reference: Section 48
- Legend: §48 – Lands In Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; Sale and Disposal As Public Lands
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51, and 52 of this title and section 661 of title 43 shall not apply to the mineral lands situated in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, which are declared free and open to exploration and purchase, according to legal subdivisions, in like manner as before the 10th day of May 1872. And any bona fide entries of such lands within the States named since the 10th day of May 1872 may be patented without reference to such sections of this title. Such lands shall be offered for public sale in the same manner, and at the same minimum price, as other public lands.
(R.S. §2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, §4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, §1, 41 Stat. 437.)
References in Text
Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51 and 52 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original the preceding provisions of this chapter, meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§2318 to 2344.
Codification
R.S. §2345 derived from act Feb. 18, 1873, ch. 159, 17 Stat. 465.
Amendments
1920—The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this act.
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30-U.S.C.-38 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Mining
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