§ 291. — Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC291]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 4--LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE
CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS
Sec. 291. Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on
lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims
All gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits, or mines or minerals of
the same on lands embraced within any land claim confirmed or hereafter
confirmed by decree of the Court of Private Land Claims, and which did
not convey the mineral rights to the grantee by the terms of the grant,
and to which such grantee has not become otherwise entitled in law or in
equity, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior to the grantee,
or to those claiming through or under him, for a period of twenty years,
with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for
successive periods of ten years, upon such reasonable terms and
conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless
otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods.
(June 8, 1926, ch. 503, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 710.)
