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30 U.S.C. § 71

Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre

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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.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1929–2016 · leading case: Watt v. W. Nuclear, Inc., 462 U.S. 36 (1983).
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Watt v. W. Nuclear, Inc., 462 U.S. 36 (1983). · cites it 2× “607 , current version at 30 U. S. C. § 71 et seq. In addition, the Coal Lands Acts of 1909 and 1910 permitted the acquisition of lands containing coal under patents reserving the coal to the United States.”
Alcea Band of Tillamooks v. United States, 87 F. Supp. 938 (Ct. Cl. 1950). “607 , 30 U.S.C.A. § 71 et seq., public lands containing coal could be sold in maximum tracts of 160 acres to a person or 320 acres to an association of persons.”
Bergum v. Musselshell Cnty., 2016 MT 47 (Mont. 2016). · cites it 2× “2 See 30 U.S.C.S. § 71 (LexisNexis, Lexis Advance through Pub.”
West v. United States ex rel. Alling, 30 F.2d 739 (D.C. Cir. 1929). “§ 2347 (30 USCA § 71). So, with reference to homesteads, the provision is that “every person * over the age of 21 years, and a citizen,” etc.”
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