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[CITE: 30USC291]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
  CHAPTER 4--LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE 
                CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS
 
Sec. 291. Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on 
        lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims
        
    All gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits, or mines or minerals of 
the same on lands embraced within any land claim confirmed or hereafter 
confirmed by decree of the Court of Private Land Claims, and which did 
not convey the mineral rights to the grantee by the terms of the grant, 
and to which such grantee has not become otherwise entitled in law or in 
equity, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior to the grantee, 
or to those claiming through or under him, for a period of twenty years, 
with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for 
successive periods of ten years, upon such reasonable terms and 
conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless 
otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods.

(June 8, 1926, ch. 503, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 710.)
