30 USC § 271 - Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

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identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s271"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "30 USC § 271 - Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "271"
section_name: "Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS"
subchapter_number: "VIII"
subchapter_name: "SULPHUR"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.)"
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# § 271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

*Provided*

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for sulphur in lands belonging to the United States located in the States of Louisiana and New Mexico for a period of not exceeding two years: , That the area to be included in such a permit shall be not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land in reasonably compact form.

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**Source Credit**: (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 1, 44 Stat. 301; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of , , known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter.

### Amendments

1932—Act , substituted “States of Louisiana and New Mexico” for “State of Louisiana”.