Chapter 373. To permit the development of certain valuable mineral resources in certain lands of the United States
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CHAP. 373.— An Act To permit the development of certain valuable mineral resources in certain lands of the United States. March 2, 1931.[[H. R. 15258](/us/bill/71/hr/15258).][[Public, No. 779](/us/pl/71/779).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Exploration, etc., of certain, in Wyoming, authorized. That all valuable mineral deposits except oil, oil shale, gas, phosphate, sodium, and coal, in the southeast quarter section 4, township 43 north, range 82 west, sixth principal meridian, in the State of Wyoming, which lands belong to the United States, are hereby declared to be free Vol. 17, p. 91.[U.
S. C., p. 954](/us/usc/954).and open to exploration and purchase under the terms and conditions of the Act approved May 10, 1872 (U. S. R. S., title 32, ch. 6; U. S. C., title 30, ch. 2), while embraced in and during the period of any permit or permits to prospect for oil or gas which has been Vol. 41, p, 437; Vol. 42, p. 356.or which may be issued by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), Vol. 44, p. 236; Vol. 45, p. 252.*Ante*, p. 58.or as extended under the Acts approved January 11, 1922 (42 Stat. 356), April 5, 1926 (44 Stat. 236), March 9, 1928 (45 Stat. 252), and January 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 58), or any of them, or while embraced in and during the period of any lease or leases issued by the Secretary of the Interior following any discovery of oil or gas in said Reservation of mineral rights.lands, except that in issuing a patent to said lands or any part thereof, to any person or corporation making a valid location thereon under the authority of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to reserve to the United States the oil and gas therein and the right to mine and remove the same, provided that the lands conveyed or any part thereof shall be embraced in a valid permit to prospect for oil or gas or a valid lease to mine and remove the same or is classified as valuable for oil or gas at the time the patent is issued.
Sec. 2. Rights of prior patentee, etc. That any location made or patent issued pursuant to the provisions hereof shall be subject to the right of any permittee or lessee, under any permit or lease which has been, or may hereafter 1471be, granted, where the right of such permittee or lessee was initiated prior to such location, to use so much of the surface of the land as may be necessary for prospecting for, mining, and removing the oil and gas deposits therein without compensation to the locater or patentee, in accordance with section 29 of the Act of February 25, Vol. 41, p. 437.1920 (41 Stat. 437).
Approved, March 2, 1931.
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