Chapter 55. To authorize the issuance of unqualified patents to public lands in certain cases
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CHAP. 55.— An Act To authorize the issuance of unqualified patents to public lands in certain cases. April 14, 1914.[[S. 474](/us/bill/63/s/474).][[Public, No. 83](/us/pl/63/83).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of thePublic lands.Patents in fee to issue if land classified as noncoal. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed in cases where patents for public lands have been issued to entrymen under the provisions of the Acts of Congress approved March third, nineteen hunVol. 35, p. 844.336Vol. 36, p. 583.dred and nine, and June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, reserving to the United States all coal deposits therein, and lands so patented are subsequently classified as noncoal in character, to issue new or supplemental patents without such reservation.
Approved, April 14, 1914.