Chapter CLIX. *in Relation to mineral Lands*
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CHAP. CLIX.— An Act *in Relation to mineral Lands*. Feb. 18, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mines of iron and coal and mineral lands in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, not included in act 1872, ch. 152, *ante*, p. 91. That within the States hereinafter named deposits or mines of iron and coal be, and they are hereby, excluded from the operations of an act entitled “An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States,” approved May tenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and said act shall not apply to the mineral lands situate and being within the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and that said lands are hereby declared free and open to exploration and purchase, according to the legal subdivisions thereof, as before the passage of said act; and that any bona-fide entriesBona-fide entries may be patented. of such lands within said States, since the passage thereof, may be patented without reference to the provisions of said act.
Approved, February 18, 1873.