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[CITE: 30USC123]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, 
                   SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
 
  SUBCHAPTER V--AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS 
  CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, 
                           SODIUM, OR SULPHUR
 
Sec. 123. Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or 
        classified; patents to
        
    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States, any lands which are subsequently withdrawn, classified, or 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lands were withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable, 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.

(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 510.)


North Platte Reclamation Project; Entry Prior to July 17, 1914; Mineral 
                                 Rights

    Patents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Project not to contain 
reservations of minerals in certain cases, see section 125 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 121, 122, 124, 125 of this 
title.
