2014 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining (Sections 1 - 2006)
Chapter 3 - Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone (Sections 71 - 172)
Subchapter I - Coal Land Entries in General (Sections 71 - 77)
Sec. 74 - Number of coal land entries; other entries upon noncompliance with conditions

Sections 71 to 73 of this title shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof; and no member of any association which shall have taken the benefit of such sections shall enter or hold any other lands under their provisions; and all persons claiming under section 72 of this title shall be required to prove their respective rights and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.

(R.S. §2350.)

R.S. §2350 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, §4, 17 Stat. 607.

See note set out under section 71 of this title.