30 USC § 123 - Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to

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title: "30 USC § 123 - Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "123"
section_name: "Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR"
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currency: "119-84"
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source_credit: "(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, § 3, 38 Stat. 510.)"
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# § 123. Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to

July 17, 1914

Any person who has, in good faith, located, selected, entered, or purchased, or any person who shall locate, select, enter, or purchase, after , under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, any lands which are subsequently withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, may, upon application therefor, and making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.

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**Source Credit**: (July 17, 1914, ch. 142, § 3, 38 Stat. 510.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### North Platte Reclamation Project; Entry Prior to July 17, 1914; Mineral Rights

Patents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Project not to contain reservations of minerals in certain cases, see .