US Code - Chapter 2: Mineral lands and regulations in general

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  • Section 21 Mineral lands reserved
  • Section 21A National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
  • Section 22 Lands open to purchase by citizens
  • Section 23 Length of claims on veins or lodes
  • Section 24 Proof of citizenship
  • Section 25 Affidavit of citizenship
  • Section 26 Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment
  • Section 27 Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
  • Section 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 patent; co-owner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
  • Section 28-1 Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
  • Section 28-2 Definitions
  • Section 28A Omitted
  • Section 28B Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
  • Section 28C Length and termination of deferment
  • Section 28D Performance of deferred work
  • Section 28E Recordation of deferment
  • Section 28F Fee
  • Section 28G Location fee
  • Section 28H Co-ownership
  • Section 28I Failure to pay
  • Section 28J Other requirements
  • Section 28K Regulations
  • Section 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 office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits
  • Section 30 Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
  • Section 31 Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
  • Section 32 Findings by jury; costs
  • Section 33 Existing rights
  • Section 34 Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
  • Section 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 entry of segregated agricultural land
  • Section 36 Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
  • Section 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; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
  • Section 38 Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
  • Section 39 Surveyors of mining claims
  • Section 40 Verification of affidavits
  • Section 41 Intersecting or crossing veins
  • Section 42 Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
  • Section 43 Conditions of sale by local legislature
  • Section 44, 45 Omitted
  • Section 46 Additional land districts and officers
  • Section 47 Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
  • Section 48 Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
  • Section 49 Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
  • Section 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 of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
  • Section 49B Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
  • Section 49C Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
  • Section 49D Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
  • Section 49E Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
  • Section 49F Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
  • Section 50 Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
  • Section 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' possession
  • Section 52 Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
  • Section 53 Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
  • Section 54 Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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