2013 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL (§§ 21 - 54)
Section 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL Sec. 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands |
| Contains | section 48 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | R.S. §2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, §4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, §1, 41 Stat. 437. |
| Statutes at Large References | 17 Stat. 465 26 Stat. 1097 41 Stat. 437 |
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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 TEXTSections 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.
CODIFICATIONR.S. §2345 derived from act Feb. 18, 1873, ch. 159, 17 Stat. 465.
AMENDMENTS1920—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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