30 U.S.C. § 36 : US Code - Section 36: Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
Search 30 U.S.C. § 36 : US Code - Section 36: Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre
tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having
contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less
than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location
of a placer claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall
exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or
association of persons, which location shall conform to the United
States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall defeat
or impair any bona fide homestead claim upon agricultural lands, or
authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to
any purchaser.
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