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30 U.S.C. § 121 — Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application
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Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits, shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title.
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Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits, shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title.
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Unreserved public lands of the United States exclusive of Alaska which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands, or are valuable for coal, shall be subject to appropriate entry under the homestead laws by actual settlers only, the desert-land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
§ 122
§ 103. Patents for oil or gas lands not denied be-
cause of transfer before discovery of oil or
gas; acreage limitation; nonapplication to
withdraw lands
In no case shall patent be denied to or for any
lands located or claimed prior to March 2, 1911,
under the mining laws of the United States con-
taining petroleum, mineral oil, or gas solely be-
cause of any transfer or assignment thereof or of
any interest or interests therein by the original
locator or locators, or any of them, to any quali-
fied persons or person or corporation, prior to
discovery of oil or gas therein, but if such claim
is in all other respects valid and regular, patent
therefor not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres in any one claim shall issue to the holder
or holders thereof, as in other cases. The above
provisions shall not apply where such lands were
at the time of inception of development on or
under such claim withdrawn from mineral
entry.
(Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 201, § 1, 36 Stat. 1015.)
§ 104. Agreements with applicants for patents as
to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds there-
of, pending determination of title; Navy Pe-
troleum Fund
Where applications for patents have been or
may be offered for any oil or gas land included
in an order of withdrawal upon which oil or gas
had been discovered, or was being produced prior
to March 2, 1911, or upon which drilling oper-
ations were in actual progress on October 3, 1910,
and oil or gas is thereafter discovered thereon,
and where there has been no final determination
by the Secretary of the Interior upon such appli-
cations for patent, said Secretary, in his discre-
tion, may enter into agreements, under such
conditions as he may prescribe with such appli-
cants for p
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