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30 U.S.C. § 229 — Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions
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In the case of lands bona fide entered as agricultural, and not withdrawn or classified as mineral at the time of entry, but not including lands claimed under any railroad grant, the entryman or patentee, or assigns, where assignment was made prior to January 1, 1918, if the entry has been patented with the mineral right reserved, shall be entitled to a preference right to a permit and to a lease, as herein provided, in case of discovery; and within an area not greater than a township such entryman and patentees, or assigns holding restricted patents may combine their holdings, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of making joint application. Leases executed under this section and embracing only lands so entered shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum as to such areas within the permit as may not be included within the discovery lease to which the permittee is entitled under [section 223 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section223&num=0&edition=prelim).
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In the case of lands bona fide entered as agricultural, and not withdrawn or classified as mineral at the time of entry, but not including lands claimed under any railroad grant, the entryman or patentee, or assigns, where assignment was made prior to January 1, 1918, if the entry has been patented with the mineral right reserved, shall be entitled to a preference right to a permit and to a lease, as herein provided, in case of discovery; and within an area not greater than a township such entryman and patentees, or assigns holding restricted patents may combine their holdings, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of making joint application. Leases executed under this section and embracing only lands so entered shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum as to such areas within the permit as may not be included within the discovery lease to which the permittee is entitled under [section 223 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section223&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of oil or gas have been discovered within the limits of the land embraced in any permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for one-fourth of the land embraced in the prospecting permit: Provided, That the permittee shall be granted a lease for as much as one hundred and sixty acres of said lands, if there be that number of acres within the permit. The area to be selected by the permittee, shall be in reasonably compact form and, if surveyed, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; if unsurveyed, to be surveyed by the Government at the expense of the applicant for lease in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the lands leased shall be conformed to and taken in accordance with the legal subdivisions of such surveys; deposits made to cover expense of surveys shall be deemed appropriated for that purpose, and any excess deposits may be repaid to the person or persons making such deposit or their legal representatives. Such leases shall be for a term of twenty years upon a royalty of 5 per centum in amount or value of the production and the annual payment in advance of a rental of $1 per acre, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year, and shall continue in force otherwise as prescribed in [section 226 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section226&num=0&edition=prelim) for leases issued prior to August 21, 1935. The permittee shall also be entitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his prospecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum in am
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§§ 230 to 233
claim, or unavoidably lost: Provided, however,
That the provisions of this section shall not
apply to lands reserved for the use of the Navy.
No claimant for a permit or lease who has been
guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or rea-
sonable grounds to know of any fraud, or who
has not acted honestly and in good faith shall be
entitled to any of the benefits of this section.
All permits or leases hereunder shall inure to
the benefit of the claimant and all persons
claiming through or under him by lease, con-
tract, or otherwise, as their interests may ap-
pear.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 19, 41 Stat. 445.)
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Section 227 of this title, referred to in text, was omit-
ted from the Code.
§ 229. Preference right to permits or leases of
claimants of lands bona fide entered as agri-
cultural land; terms and conditions
In the case of lands bona fide entered as agri-
cultural, and not withdrawn or classified as
mineral at the time of entry, but not including
lands claimed under any railroad grant, the
entryman or patentee, or assigns, where assign-
ment was made prior to January 1, 1918, if the
entry has been patented with the mineral right
reserved, shall be entitled to a preference right
to a permit and to a lease, as herein provided, in
case of discovery; and within an area not greater
than a township such entryman and patentees,
or assigns holding restricted patents may com-
bine their holdings, not to exceed two thousand
five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of
making joint application. Leases executed under
this section and embracing only lands so entered
shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not
less than 121⁄2 per centum as to such areas
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