Federal · Title 43 — Public Lands
43 U.S.C. § 144: Entries on land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas validated
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Entries existing on February 7, 1925 , and allowed prior to April 1, 1924 , under the Stock Raising Homestead Act of December 29, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 862) [ 43 U.S.C. 291 et seq.], for land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas, but not otherwise reserved or withdrawn, are validated, if otherwise regular: Provided , That at date of entry the land was not within the limits of the geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field.
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