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NOTES:
Source
(R.S. § 2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)
References in Text
Sections
21,
22 to
24,
26 to
28,
29,
30,
33 to
47,
51 and
52 of this title and section
661 of title
43, referred to in text, were in the original “the preceding provisions of this chapter”, meaning chapter 6 of title
32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to
2344.
Codification
R.S. § 2345 derived from act Feb. 18, 1873, ch. 159, 17 Stat. 465.
Amendments
1920—The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this act.
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