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[CITE: 30USC273]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
               CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
 
                        SUBCHAPTER VIII--SULPHUR
 
Sec. 273. Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; 
        acreage; rental
        
    Lands known to contain valuable deposits of sulphur and not covered 
by permits or leases shall be held subject to lease by the Secretary of 
the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other 
methods as he may by general regulations adopt and in such areas as he 
shall fix, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres; all leases to be 
conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be 
fixed in the lease and the payment in advance of a rental of 50 cents 
per acre per annum, the rental paid for any one year to be credited 
against the royalties accruing for that year.

(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 301.)

                          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.
