Chapter 369. To amend section two of an Act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten
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CHAP. 369.— An Act To amend section two of an Act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten.August 24, 1912.[[S. 5679](/us/bill/62/s/5679).][[Public, No. 316](/us/pl/62/316).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Withdrawals for specified purposes.Vol. 36, p. 847. That section two of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and forty-seven), be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
"“Sec. 2. That all lands withdrawn under the provisions of thisMining rights continued. Act shall at all times be open to exploration, discovery, occupation, and purchase under the mining laws of the United States, so far as the same apply to metalliferous minerals: *Provided*, That the rights*Provisos*.Rights of bona fide oil or gas claimants. of any person who, at the date of any order of withdrawal heretofore or hereafter made, is a bona fide occupant or claimant of oil or gas bearing lands and who, at such date, is in the diligent prosecution of work leading to the discovery of oil or gas, shall not be affected or impaired by such order so long as such occupant or claimant shall continue in diligent prosecution of said work: *Provided further*, ThatStatus of prior claims. this Act shall not be construed as a recognition, abridgment, or enlargement of any asserted rights or claims initiated upon any oil or gas bearing lands after any withdrawal of such lands made prior to June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten: *And provided further*,Homestead,, etc., entries not affected.
That there shall be excepted from the force and effect of any withdrawal made under the provisions of this Act all lands which are, on the, date of such withdrawal, embraced in any lawful homestead or desert-land entry theretofore made, or upon which any valid settlement has been made and is at said date being maintained and perfected pursuant to law; but the terms of tins proviso shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman or settler shall continue to comply with the law under which the entry or settlement was made: *And provided further*, That hereafter noCreation of forest reserves restricted.Vol. 34, p. 1271. forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming, except by Act of Congress.”" Approved, August 24, 1912.