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title: "30 U.S.C. § 123"
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title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
chapter_number: "3"
chapter_name: "LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE"
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# 30 U.S.C. § 123 - Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to
## Text
Any person who has, in good faith, located, selected, entered, or purchased, or any person who shall locate, select, enter, or purchase, after July 17, 1914, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, any lands which are subsequently withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, may, upon application therefor, and making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, § 3, 38 Stat. 510.)
## Notes
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
North Platte Reclamation Project; Entry Prior to July 17, 1914; Mineral RightsPatents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Proj­ect not to contain reservations of minerals in certain cases, see section 125 of this title.