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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "30 U.S.C. § 261"
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description: "Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 30
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title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
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chapter_number: "3A"
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chapter_name: "LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS"
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section: "261"
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citation: "30 U.S.C. § 261"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s261"
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source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 30 U.S.C. § 261 - Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
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## Text
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form.
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(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 23, 41 Stat. 447; Dec. 11, 1928, ch. 19, 45 Stat. 1019.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Amendments1928—Act Dec. 11, 1928, struck out “and directed” after “authorized”, “dissolved in and soluble in water, and accumulated by concentration, in lands belonging to the United States for a period not exceeding two years,” after “nitrates of sodium”, and last proviso which read “Provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands in San Bernardino County, California.”
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