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[CITE: 30USC271]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
               CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
 
                        SUBCHAPTER VIII--SULPHUR
 
Sec. 271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

    The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, 
under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any 
qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive 
right to prospect for sulphur in lands belonging to the United States 
located in the States of Louisiana and New Mexico for a period of not 
exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a 
permit shall be not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of lands in 
reasonably compact form.

(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 301; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 
47 Stat. 701.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 
Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this 
chapter.


                               Amendments

    1932--Act July 16, 1932, substituted ``States of Louisiana and New 
Mexico'' for ``State of Louisiana''.
