30 U.S.C. § 101 — Omitted

Page 30 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. The owner under such limited patent shall have the right to mine coal for personal use upon the land for domestic purposes at any time prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal de- posits. Nothing herein contained shall be held to deny or abridge the right to present and have prompt consideration of applications made under the applicable land laws of the United States for any such surplus lands which have been or may be classified as coal lands with a view of disproving such classification and secur- ing a patent without reservation. (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 3, 39 Stat. 945.) § 89. Disposition of proceeds The net proceeds derived from the sale and entry of surplus lands in conformity with the provisions of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the same fund under the same conditions and limitations as are or may be pre- scribed by law for the disposition of the proceeds arising from the disposal of other surplus lands in such Indian reservation. The provisions of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall not apply to the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma. (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 4, 39 Stat. 945.) § 90. Selection of coal lands by States; sale in iso- lated or disconnected tracts 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 sec- tions. (Apr. 30, 1912, ch. 99, 37 Stat. 105.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS Act Apr. 30, 1912, is supplemental to sections 83 to 85 of this title. SUBCHAPTER III—PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS § 101. Omitted Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section, act Feb. 11, 1897, ch. 216, 29 Stat. 526, related to entry of mineral oil lands under placer mining laws. See section 181 et seq. of this title. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SAVINGS PROVISION Section 193 of this title contains a savings provision protecting valid claims in existence on Feb. 20, 1920. § 102. Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner Where oil lands are located under the provi- sions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contig- uous and owned by the same person or corpora- tion, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to deter- mine the oil-bearing character of such contig- uous claims. (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original ‘‘title thirty-two, chap- ter six, Revised Statutes of the United States’’, con- sisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.