Chapter 99. To supplement the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands.”April 30, 1912.[[H
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CHAP. 99.— An Act To supplement the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands.”April 30, 1912.[[H. R. 8784](/us/bill/62/hr/8784).][[Public, No. 141](/us/pl/62/141).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Disposal of surface of coal lands to States, etc. That from and after the passage of this Act unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in the Act of Congress approved JuneVol. 86, p. 583. twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands,” be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said Act.
Approved, April 30, 1912.