30 U.S.C. § 87 (2024)
This is the official text of 30 U.S.C. § 87 (2024), part of Federal (US Code)’s United States Code — the codified general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, organized into more than 50 numbered titles by subject.
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Any applicant for lands mentioned in section 86 of this title shall state in his application that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 86 to 89 of this title, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be entitled to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
(Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, §2, 39 Stat. 945.)
(Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, §2, 39 Stat. 945.)
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