30 U.S.C. § 71 — Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acrereserved

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A U.S. citizen over 21, or someone who has applied for citizenship, can enter vacant federal coal lands. An individual can claim up to 160 acres, and an association up to 320 acres. Land past 15 miles from a railroad costs at least $10 an acre; nearer land costs $20.

Any person over 21 who is a U.S. citizen, or who has filed to become one, can apply to enter federal coal lands. An association of people who are each so qualified can apply too. The application goes to the register of the proper land office. It lets the applicant enter, by legal subdivision, any amount of vacant coal land that the government has not already appropriated or reserved for another purpose. An individual cannot claim more than 160 acres this way. An association cannot claim more than 320 acres. The applicant must pay the register at least $10 per acre if the land sits more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad. If the land sits within fifteen miles of a completed railroad, the price rises to at least $20 per acre.

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Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become such, or any association of persons severally qualified as above, shall, upon application to the register of the proper land office, have the right to enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon payment to the register of not less than $10 per acre for such lands, where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than $20 per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of such road.

Source credit: (R.S. § 2347; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145.)

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1925Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462 · 43 Stat. 1145

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