2016 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 3 - Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone
Subchapter I - Coal Land Entries in General
Sec. 72 - Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation

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Citation 30 U.S.C. § 72 (2016)
Section Name §72. Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation
Section Text

Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements.

Source Credit

(R.S. §2348.)

Editorial Notes CODIFICATION

R.S. §2348 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, §2, 17 Stat. 607.

INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED

See note set out under section 71 of this title.

Publication Title United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, 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 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL
Sec. 72 - Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation
Contains section 72
Date 2016
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 6, 2017
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large Reference 17 Stat. 607
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