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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 43USC146]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
     CHAPTER 6--WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
 
Sec. 146. Patents to purchasers of lands withdrawn

    Upon payment of the purchase price the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized by appropriate patent to convey all the right, title, and 
interest in and to said lands to the purchaser at said sale, subject, 
however, to such reservations, limitations, or conditions as said 
Secretary may deem proper: Provided, That not over one hundred and sixty 
acres shall be sold to any one person: Provided further, That any patent 
issued hereunder shall contain a reservation to the United States of all 
oil, gas, coal, and other mineral.

(Jan. 26, 1921, ch. 27, Sec. 2, 41 Stat. 1089.)
