30 U.S.C. § 171 — Disposal as agricultural lands

submitted 143 years ago by ch. 118 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 60 words · no verdicts yet

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Public lands in Alabama, whether mineral or not, can only be sold as agricultural land, with one exception noted elsewhere in the law. Land reported before March 3, 1883 as containing coal and iron must be offered at public sale first.

Except as chapter 3A of this title otherwise provides, all public land in Alabama, whether it has minerals or not, can be sold only as farmland. There is one special rule: land that had already been reported to the General Land Office before March 3, 1883, as containing coal and iron must be offered for sale at a public sale first.

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Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, all public lands within the State of Alabama, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. All lands which had been reported to the General Land Office prior to March 3, 1883, as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1883Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118 · 22 Stat. 487
1920Amended · Act of Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85 · 41 Stat. 437

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