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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 679. Patents to State of South Dakota of certain lands in Custer State Park; reservation of coal, oil, gas, and other mineral rights
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue
to the State of South Dakota patents conveying title, but reserving
the minerals therein, to any unpatented lands of the United States
held or claimed by virtue of locations made prior to March 3, 1925,
under the United States general mining laws, within the Custer
State Park, not exceeding a total of two thousand acres, upon
payment to the United States of $1.25 per acre therefor, and upon
evidence being furnished that all claim, right, title, and interest
of such claimants have been transferred to the State or have been
abandoned. Patents so issued to the State of South Dakota shall be
conditioned upon the lands being used for park purposes, and
provide for the reversion of the lands of the United States in the
event of failure to so hold and use. The United States reserves all
coal, oil, gas, or other minerals in the lands patented under this
section with the right, in case any of said patented lands are
found by the Secretary of the Interior to be more valuable for the
minerals therein than for park purposes, to provide, by special
legislation, having due regard for the rights of the State of South
Dakota, for the disposition and extraction of the coal, oil, gas or
other minerals therein. The provisions of this section are limited
to lands lying within the limits of the Custer State Park, within
townships 3 and 4 south, range 6 east, and the east one-third of
townships 3 and 4 south, range 5 east, Black Hills meridian.
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