30 USC § 87 - Statements in application; patents

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identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s87"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "30 USC § 87 - Statements in application; patents"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "87"
section_name: "Statements in application; patents"
chapter_number: 3
chapter_name: "LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)"
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# § 87. Statements in application; patents

section 86 of this title

Any applicant for lands mentioned in  shall state in his application that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 86 to 89 of this title, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be entitled to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.

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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)