§ 48. — Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC48]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and
disposal as public lands
Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, the
provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51, and
52 of this title and section 661 of title 43 shall not apply to the
mineral lands situated in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota, which are declared free and open to exploration and purchase,
according to legal subdivisions, in like manner as before the 10th day
of May 1872. And any bona fide entries of such lands within the States
named since the 10th day of May 1872 may be patented without reference
to such sections of this title. Such lands shall be offered for public
sale in the same manner, and at the same minimum price, as other public
lands.
(R.S. Sec. 2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25,
1920, ch. 85, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 437.)
References in Text
Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51 and 52 of this
title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the
original ``the preceding provisions of this chapter'', meaning chapter 6
of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to
2344.
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2345 derived from act Feb. 18, 1873, ch. 159, 17 Stat.
465.
Amendments
1920--The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this
section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of
coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing
such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to
disposition in the form and manner provided by this act.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 46, 47, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1.
