# 1 Alaskan land leases for fur farming; citizenship; acreage limitation; period; terms and conditions; laws applicable to mineral resources; reservations
See References in Text note below.
*Provided**Provided further**And provided further*[^1]*And provided further*July 3, 1926
The Secretary of the Interior, in order to encourage and promote development of production of furs in the Territory of Alaska, is authorized to lease to corporations organized under the laws of the United States, or of any state or Territory thereof, citizens of the United States, or associations of such citizens, public lands of the United States in the Territory of Alaska suitable for fur farming, in areas not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, and for periods not exceeding ten years, upon such terms and conditions as he may by general regulations prescribe: , That where leases are given hereunder for islands or lands within the same, such lease may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be for an area not to exceed thirty square miles: , That nothing herein contained shall prevent the prospecting, locating, development, entering, leasing, or patenting of the mineral resources of any lands so leased under laws applicable thereto: , That this section shall not be held nor construed to apply to the Pribilof Islands, declared a special reservation by section 646 of title 16: , That any permit or lease issued under this section shall reserve to the Secretary of the Interior the right to permit the use and occupation of parts of said leased areas for the taking, preparing, manufacturing, or storing of fish or fish products, or the utilization of the lands for purposes of trade or business, to the extent and in the manner provided by existing laws or laws which may be enacted after .
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**Source Credit**: (July 3, 1926, ch. 745, § 1, 44 Stat. 821.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
, referred to in text, was repealed by , . See sections 1161, 1162, and 1167 of Title 16, Conservation.
### Codification
Section was formerly classified to , Territories and Insular Possessions.
## Executive Documents
### Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, , 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of , , , set out as notes preceding , Territories and Insular Possessions.