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30 U.S.C. § 36 — Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements

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30 U.S.C. § 36 — Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements

Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide homestead claim upon agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to any purchaser.

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43 U.S.C. § 1303 — Amendment, modification, or repeal of other laws

Nothing in this subchapter or subchapter II shall be deemed to amend, modify, or repeal the Acts of July 26, 1866 (14 Stat. 251), July 9, 1870 (16 Stat. 217), March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 377), June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

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30 U.S.C. § 36 — Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of

Page 18 TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING § 36 sions, survey and plat shall be made as on unsurveyed lands; and where by the segregation of mineral land in any legal subdivision a quan- tity of agricultural land less than forty acres re- mains, such fractional portion of agricultural land may be entered by any party qualified by law, for homestead purposes. (R.S. §§ 2329, 2331; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 2329 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 12, 16 Stat. 217. R.S. § 2331 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, § 10, 17 Stat. 94. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. § 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agri- cultural lands; sale of improvements Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be sub- divided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having con- tiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys; and noth- ing in this section contained shall defeat or im- pair any bona fide homestead claim upon agri- cultural lands, or authorize the sale of the im- provements of any bona fide settler to any pur- chaser. (R.S. § 2330; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION R.S. § 2330 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 12, 16 Stat. 217. Statut

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