§125 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

§125 Patents in North Platte Reclamation Project; Mineral Rights; Subrogation

Title 30 › Chapter 3— LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE › Subchapter V— AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR › § 125

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Summary

When a reclamation homestead entry was made before July 17, 1914, under the June 17, 1902 law, for land in the Northport Division or Interstate Division of the North Platte Reclamation Project, the land patent must not reserve the minerals named in sections 81 and 121–124 even if the land was later withdrawn, classified, or reported as valuable for those minerals. If the United States already leased those mineral deposits, the patent must respect the lease. The patent holder then takes the United States’ place under that lease and gets the same rights the Government had.

Title 30, §125

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Where reclamation homestead entry was made prior to July 17, 1914, pursuant to the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 389, 43 U.S.C., sec. 431), as amended and supplemented, for lands in the Northport Division or the Interstate Division of the North Platte Reclamation Project, and after such entry the lands have been or are hereafter withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for any of the minerals named in section 81 and 121 to 124 of this title, the patent shall not contain a reservation of such minerals. If any such mineral deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified or reported as being valuable have been leased by the United States, such patent shall be made subject to the rights of the lessee, but the patentee shall be subrogated to the rights of the United States under the lease.

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Act of

June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is act

June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables.