[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2542.4]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2540_COLOR-OF-TITLE AND OMITTED LANDS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart 2542_Color-of-Title Claims: New Mexico, Contiguous to Spanish or 
                             Mexican Grants
 
Sec. 2542.4  Patent.

    (a) Upon submission of satisfactory proof of publication and the 
expiration of the time allowed for the filing of objections against the 
application, if there be no protest, contest or other objection against 
the application, patent will then be issued by the authorizing officer.
    (b) There will be incorporated in patents issued on applications 
under the above Act, the following:

    Excepting and reserving, however, to the United States, the coal and 
all other minerals in the land so patented, together with the right of 
the United States or its permittees, lessees, or grantees, to enter upon 
said lands for the purpose of prospecting for and mining such deposits 
as provided for under the Act of February 23, 1932 (47 Stat. 53).