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United States Code U.S. Code: Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING § 22 - Lands open to purchase by citizens
§ 23 - Length of claims on veins or lodes
§ 24 - Proof of citizenship
§ 25 - Affidavit of citizenship
§ 26 - Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
§ 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
§ 28 - Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or...delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
§ 28-1
§ 28-2
§ 28a - Omitted
§ 28b - Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
§ 28c - Length and termination of deferment
§ 28d - Performance of deferred work
§ 28e - Recordation of deferment
§ 28f - Fee
§ 28g - Location fee
§ 28h - Co-ownership
§ 28i - Failure to pay
§ 28j - Other requirements
§ 28k - Regulations
§ 28l - Collection of mining law administration fees
§ 29 - Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim;...nonresident claimant’s agent for execution of application and affidavits
§ 30 - Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants’...land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
§ 31 - Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
§ 32 - Findings by jury; costs
§ 33 - Existing rights
§ 34 - Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
§ 35 - Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land
§ 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
§ 37 - Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments...proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
§ 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
§ 39 - Surveyors of mining claims
§ 40 - Verification of affidavits
§ 41 - Intersecting or crossing veins
§ 42 - Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
§ 43 - Conditions of sale by local legislature
§ 44 - Omitted
§ 46 - Additional land districts and officers
§ 47 - Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
§ 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
§ 49 - Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
§ 49a - Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from...high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
§ 49b - Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
§ 49c - Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
§ 49d - Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
§ 49e - Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
§ 49f - Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
§ 50 - Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
§ 51 - Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers’ possession
§ 52 - Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
§ 53 - Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
§ 54 - Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
§ 601 - Rules and regulations governing disposal of materials; payment; removal without charge; lands excluded
U.S. Code: Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS Statutes at Large
