Browse as ListSearch Within- Section 21 - Mineral lands reserved
- Section 21a - National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
- Section 22 - Lands open to purchase by citizens
- Section 23 - Length of claims on veins or lodes
- Section 24 - Proof of citizenship
- Section 25 - Affidavit of citizenship
- Section 26 - Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment
- Section 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
- Section 28 - Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
- Section 28-1 - Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
- Section 28-2 - Definitions
- Section 28a - Omitted
- Section 28b - Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
- Section 28c - Length and termination of deferment
- Section 28d - Performance of deferred work
- Section 28e - Recordation of deferment
- Section 28f - Fee
- Section 28g - Location fee
- Section 28h - Co-ownership
- Section 28i - Failure to pay
- Section 28j - Other requirements
- Section 28k - Regulations
- Section 28l - Collection of mining law administration fees
- Section 29 - Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits
- Section 30 - Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
- Section 31 - Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
- Section 32 - Findings by jury; costs
- Section 33 - Existing rights
- Section 34 - Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
- Section 35 - Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land
- Section 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
- Section 37 - Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
- Section 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
- Section 39 - Surveyors of mining claims
- Section 40 - Verification of affidavits
- Section 41 - Intersecting or crossing veins
- Section 42 - Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
- Section 43 - Conditions of sale by local legislature
- Section 44, 45 - Omitted
- Section 46 - Additional land districts and officers
- Section 47 - Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
- Section 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
- Section 49 - Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
- Section 49a - Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
- Section 49b - Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
- Section 49c - Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
- Section 49d - Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
- Section 49e - Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
- Section 49f - Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
- Section 50 - Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
- Section 51 - Water users' vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession
- Section 52 - Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
- Section 53 - Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
- Section 54 - Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities