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30 U.S.C. § 90 — Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts
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Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said sections.
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Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said sections.
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Unreserved public lands of the United States exclusive of Alaska which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands, or are valuable for coal, shall be subject to appropriate entry under the homestead laws by actual settlers only, the desert-land law, to selection under [section 641 of title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section641&num=0&edition=prelim), and to withdrawal under the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the Reclamation Act, whenever such entry, selection, or withdrawal shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title, with a reservation to the United States of the coal in such lands and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. But all homestead entries made hereunder shall be subject to the conditions, as to residence and cultivation, of entries under [section 218 of title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section218&num=0&edition=prelim). Those who have initiated nonmineral entries, selections, or locations in good faith, prior to June 22, 1910, on lands withdrawn or classified as coal lands may perfect the same under the provisions of the laws under which said entries were made, but shall receive the limited patent provided for in sections 83 to 85 of this title.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 88
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.)
§ 88. Disposition of coal by United States
If the coal-land laws have been or shall be ex-
tended over lands applied for, entered, or pat-
ented hereunder the coal deposits therein shall
be subject to disposal by the United States in
accordance with the provisions of the coal-land
laws in force at the time of such disposal. Any
person qualified to acquire coal deposits or the
right to mine and remove the coal under the
laws of the United States shall have the right at
all times to enter upon the lands applied for, en-
tered, or patented under sections 86 to 89 of this
title, for the purpose of prospecting for coal
thereon, if such coal deposits are then subject to
disposition, upon the approval by the Secretary
of the Interior of a bond or undertaking to be
filed with him as security for the payment of all
damages to the crops and improvements on such
lands by reason of such prospecting. Any person
who has acquired from the United States the
coal deposits in any such lands, or the right to
mine or remove the same, may reenter and oc-
cupy so much of the surface thereof as may be
required for all purposes reasonably incident to
the mining and removal of the coal therefrom,
and mine and remove the coal, upon payment of
the damages caused thereby to the owner there-
of, or upon giving a good and sufficient bond or
undertaking in an action instituted in any com-
petent court to ascertain and fix said damages.
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