30 USC § 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands

---
identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s48"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "30 USC § 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "48"
section_name: "Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(R.S. § 2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)"
---


# § 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands

section 661 of title 43

Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51, and 52 of this title and  shall not apply to the mineral lands situated in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, which are declared free and open to exploration and purchase, according to legal subdivisions, in like manner as before the 10th day of May 1872. And any bona fide entries of such lands within the States named since the 10th day of May 1872 may be patented without reference to such sections of this title. Such lands shall be offered for public sale in the same manner, and at the same minimum price, as other public lands.

---

**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 1, 41 Stat. 437.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51 and 52 of this title and , 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 , .

### Amendments

1920—The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act , 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.