Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§49b Mining Laws Relating to Placer Claims Extended to Alaska
Title 30 › CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL › § 49b
Summary
Makes placer-mining laws applied before May 4, 1934 effective in Alaska and preserves rights of locators or owners who acquired claims before that date under the acts of August 1, 1912 and March 3, 1925.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §49b
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The general mining laws of the United States so far as they are applicable to placer-mining claims, as prior to May 4, 1934, extended to the Territory of Alaska, are declared to be in full force and effect in said Territory: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to change or affect the rights acquired by locators or owners of placer-mining claims prior to May 4, 1934, located in said Territory under act August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118).
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act
August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act
March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118), referred to in text, were repealed by section 1 of act
May 4, 1934. See sections 35 to 37 and 49b of this title. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 119 and 381a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Act
May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 3, 48 Stat. 663, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section] shall take effect thirty days subsequent to the date of convening of the first regular session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature which is held after the passage of this Act [
May 4, 1934].”
Executive Documents
Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 49b
Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102