30 U.S.C. § 123 — Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to

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Someone who claimed public land in good faith under the regular land laws, but whose land was later found valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, can still get a patent for the land. That patent will reserve the mineral deposits to the United States, along with the government's right to prospect for, mine, and remove them.

This section protects people who claimed nonmineral land that was later reclassified as mineral land. It applies to anyone who located, selected, entered, or purchased land in good faith under the nonmineral land laws — whether they did so before this rule, or do so after July 17, 1914 — where that land is later withdrawn, classified, or reported as valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals. That person may apply for, and upon proving they satisfied the laws under which they claimed the land, receive a patent. That patent will reserve to the United States all the mineral deposits that caused the land to be withdrawn, classified, or reported as valuable, along with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove those minerals. The section has no lettered subsections.

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Any person who has, in good faith, located, selected, entered, or purchased, or any person who shall locate, select, enter, or purchase, after July 17, 1914, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, any lands which are subsequently withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, may, upon application therefor, and making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.

Source credit: (July 17, 1914, ch. 142, § 3, 38 Stat. 510.)

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1914Enacted · Act of July 17, 1914, ch. 142 · 38 Stat. 510

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