§ 36. — Subdivisions of 10acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC36]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer
locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of
improvements
Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre
tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having
contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten
acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer
claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall exceed one hundred and
sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location
shall conform to the United States surveys; and nothing in this section
contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide homestead claim upon
agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any
bona fide settler to any purchaser.
(R.S. Sec. 2330; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2330 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 12, 16
Stat. 217.
Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1.
