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30 U.S.C. § 171 — Disposal as agricultural lands
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Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, all public lands within the State of Alabama, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. All lands which had been reported to the General Land Office prior to March 3, 1883, as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale.
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Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, all public lands within the State of Alabama, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. All lands which had been reported to the General Land Office prior to March 3, 1883, as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, R.S. § 446; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided that there shall be in the Department of the Interior a Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Provision for a Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior and for the structure of such Bureau is contained in section 403 of the 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, which is set out below.
#### Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under [section 1451 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1451&num=0&edition=prelim).
For transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds, see sections 1001 to 1003 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
#### Bureau of Land Management Created
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided:
“(a) The functions of the General Land Office and of the Grazing Service in the Department of the Interior are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Management. The functions of the other agencies named in subsection (d) of this section are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.
“(b) There shall be at the head of such Bureau a Director of the Bureau of Land Management, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under the classified civil service, who shall
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Unreserved public lands containing coal deposits in the State of Alabama which on April 23, 1912, were being withheld from homestead entry under the provisions of [section 171 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section171&num=0&edition=prelim), may be entered under the homestead laws of the United States subject to the provisions, terms, conditions, and limitations prescribed in sections 83 to 85 of this title.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 171
§ 125. Patents in North Platte Reclamation
Project; mineral rights; subrogation
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 valu-
able for any of the minerals named in sections 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.
(Apr. 17, 1954, ch. 152, 68 Stat. 56.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
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 chap-
ter 12 (§ 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For com-
plete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Ta-
bles.
SUBCHAPTER
VI—LOCATION
OF
PHOS-
PHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-
MINING LAWS
§ 131. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act Jan. 11, 1915, ch. 9, 38 Stat. 792, provided
for perfection under placer mining laws of locations
made in good faith prior to Jan. 11, 1915, on public lands
containing deposits of phosphate rock.
SUBCHAPTER VII—PERMITS TO PROSPECT
FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES,
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