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§ 316. o . Laws applicable

Laws now applicable to lands or resources in the Territory of Alaska shall continue in force and effect to the same extent and in the same manner after March 4, 1927, as before, and nothing in this subchapter shall preclude or prevent ingress or egress upon the lands in districts for any purpose authorized by any such law, including prospecting for and extraction of minerals.

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, §16, 44 Stat. 1455.)


Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 471o of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.


Executive Documents

Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

CHAPTER 9—DESERT-LAND ENTRIES

Sec.
321.
Entry right generally; extent of right to appropriate waters.
322.
Desert lands defined; question how determined.
323.
Application to certain States.
324.
Assignment of entries.
325.
Resident citizenship of State as qualification for entry.
326.
Unsurveyed lands not subject to entry; preferential right of entry after survey.
327.
Filing irrigation plan; association of entrymen.
328.
Expenditures and cultivation requirements.
329.
Issue of patent on final proof; citizenship requirement as to patentee; limit as to amount of holding.
330.
Desert-land entry in addition to homestead entry.
331.
Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
332.
Omitted.
333.
Extension of time for completion of irrigation works.
334.
Further extension of time for final proofs.
335.
Further extension in cases not covered by sections 333 and 334 of this title.
336.
Further extension in addition to that authorized by sections 333 to 335 of this title.
336a to 336d. Repealed or Omitted.
337.
Entry, after expenditures, perfected as homestead entry.
338.
Election to perfect entry; final proof.
339.
Perfection of title to entry; supplementary provisions to sections 335, 337, and 338.

        

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