§ 71. — Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC71]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS,
SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER I--COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL
Sec. 71. Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal
lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per
acre
Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of
the United States, or who has declared his intention to become such, or
any association of persons severally qualified as above, shall, upon
application to the register of the proper land office, have the right to
enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of vacant coal lands of the
United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent
authority, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual
person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon
payment to the register of not less than $10 per acre for such lands,
where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any
completed railroad, and not less than $20 per acre for such lands as
shall be within fifteen miles of such road.
(R.S. Sec. 2347; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2347 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 1, 17
Stat. 607.
Amendments
1925--Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words which now read ``upon payment
to the register of not less than.'' Such words originally read ``upon
payment to the receiver of not less than.'' Such act consolidated the
offices of receiver and register.
Transfer of Functions
Office of register of district land office abolished and all
functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to
officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may
designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees.
See also note set out under section 1 of this title.
Indian Lands Excepted
Commenting on this section and sections 72 to 76 of this title the
Department of the Interior says:
``While there may be some Indian lands still subject to coal entry
by virtue of the provisions of law opening such lands to entry, the coal
land laws generally were superseded by the leasing Act of Feb. 25, 1920,
41 Stat. 437 [section 181 et seq. of this title], and it is at least
questionable whether the coal land laws should be carried into the
Code.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 46, 47, 72, 74, 75, 76, 102 of this title.
