2016 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 4 - Lease of Gold, Silver, or Quicksilver Deposits When Title Confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims
Sec. 291 - Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims

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Citation 30 U.S.C. § 291 (2016)
Section Name §291. Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims
Section Text

All gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits, or mines or minerals of the same on lands embraced within any land claim confirmed or hereafter confirmed by decree of the Court of Private Land Claims, and which did not convey the mineral rights to the grantee by the terms of the grant, and to which such grantee has not become otherwise entitled in law or in equity, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior to the grantee, or to those claiming through or under him, for a period of twenty years, with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for successive periods of ten years, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods.

Source Credit

(June 8, 1926, ch. 503, §1, 44 Stat. 710.)

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 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS
Sec. 291 - Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims
Contains section 291
Date 2016
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 6, 2017
Positive Law No
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Statutes at Large Reference 44 Stat. 710
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