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[CITE: 16USC482n-2]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 482n-2. Perfection of mining claims within forest

    Valid mining claims within the said lands, existing on May 24, 1949, 
and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they 
were initiated and the laws of the State of Arizona, may be perfected 
under sections 482n to 482n-3 of this title, or under the laws under 
which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.

(May 24, 1949, ch. 136, Sec. 3, 63 Stat. 76.)

                       References in Text

    May 24, 1949, referred to in text, was in the original ``the date of 
enactment of this Act''. The date thus referred to is deemed to relate 
to the date of enactment of section 482n-3 of this title, May 19, 1955, 
as applied to any land described in section 482n-3 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 482n-3 of this title.
