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CHAPTER 2—MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL (§§ 21—54)
- § 21. Mineral lands reserved
- § 21a. National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
- § 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens
- § 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes
- § 24. Proof of citizenship
- § 25. Affidavit of citizenship
- § 26. Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
- § 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
- § 28. Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of paten
- § 28-1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
- § 28-2. Definitions
- § 28a. Omitted
- § 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
- § 28c. Length and termination of deferment
- § 28d. Performance of deferred work
- § 28e. Recordation of deferment
- § 28f. Fee
- § 28g. Location fee
- § 28h. Co-ownership
- § 28i. Failure to pay
- § 28j. Other requirements
- § 28k. Regulations
- § 28l. Collection of mining law administration fees
- § 29. Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in offi
- § 30. Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants’ filing of judgment r
- § 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
- § 32. Findings by jury; costs
- § 33. Existing rights
- § 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
- § 35. Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead
- § 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
- § 37. Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; co
- § 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
- § 39. Surveyors of mining claims
- § 40. Verification of affidavits
- § 41. Intersecting or crossing veins
- § 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
- § 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature
- §§ 44, 45. Omitted
- § 46. Additional land districts and officers
- § 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
- § 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
- § 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
- § 49a. Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation o
- § 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
- § 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
- § 49d. Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
- § 49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
- § 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
- § 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
- § 51. Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers’ poss
- § 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
- § 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
- § 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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