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[CITE: 30USC171]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, 
                   SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
 
     SUBCHAPTER IX--DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS
 
Sec. 171. Disposal as agricultural lands

    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.

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

                          Codification

    Section is from act Mar. 3, 1883, which contained an additional 
provision relating to pending homesteads, which was omitted because of 
its temporary nature.


                               Amendments

    1920--The exception clause was inserted at beginning of this section 
because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, 
phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such 
deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in 
the form and manner provided by such act.

                          Transfer of Functions

    General Land Office abolished and functions transferred to Bureau of 
Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 
1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, and regulations thereunder. See note 
set out under section 1 of Title 43, Public Lands.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 77 of this title.
