1996 US Code
Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
View Metadata| Publication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 2, 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. 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements |
| Contains | section 36 |
| Date | 1996 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 6, 1997 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | R.S. §2330; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, §4, 26 Stat. 1097. |
| Statutes at Large References | 16 Stat. 217 26 Stat. 1097 |
§36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide homestead claim upon agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to any purchaser.
(R.S. §2330; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, §4, 26 Stat. 1097.)
CodificationR.S. §2330 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, §12, 16 Stat. 217.
Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Cross ReferencesMichigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin mineral lands, see section 48 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm–1.
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