[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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).