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[CITE: 43USC316o]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                        CHAPTER 8A--GRAZING LANDS
 
                          SUBCHAPTER II--ALASKA
 
Sec. 316o. Laws applicable

    Laws now applicable to lands or resources in the Territory of Alaska 
shall continue in force and effect to the same extent and in the same 
manner after March 4, 1927, as before, and nothing in this subchapter 
shall preclude or prevent ingress or egress upon the lands in districts 
for any purpose authorized by any such law, including prospecting for 
and extraction of minerals.

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, Sec. 16, 44 Stat. 1455.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 471o of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.


                      Admission of Alaska as State

    Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on 
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as 
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.
