An Act relating to mining claims located on land with respect to which a permit or lease has been issued, or an application or offer for permit or lease has been made, under the mineral leasing laws, or known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, and for other purposes
PL 83-250 (S.1397), enacted 08/12/1953

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Public Law 250 
CHAPTER 405 
AN ACT 
Relating to mining claims located on land with respect to which a permit or 
lease has been issued, or an application or offer for permit or lease has been 
made, under the mineral leasing laws, or known to be valuable for minerals 
subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That (a) subject 
to the provisions of this Act and to any valid intervening rights 
acquired under laws of the United States, any mining claim located 
under the mining laws of the United States subsequent to July 31, 
1939, and prior to January 1,1953, on lands of the United States which 
were, at the time of such location— 
(1) included in a permit or lease issuevl under the mineral leas-
ing laws; or 
(2) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease 
w^iich had been filed under the mineral leasing laws; or 
(3) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition 
under the mineral leasing laws; 
shall be effective to the same extent as if such mining claim had been 
located on lands which were at the time of such location subject to 
location under the mining laws of the United States: Provided^ how-
ever^ That in order to obtain the benefits of this Act, the owner of any 
such mining claim shall, not later than one hundred and twenty days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, post on such claim in the 
manner required for posting notice of location of mining claims and 
file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location 
of such claim is of record an amended notice of location of such 
claim, stating that such notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this 
Act and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof, 
(b) Labor performed or improvements made upon or for the benefit 
of such mining claims after the original location thereof shall be 
recognized as applicable thereto for all purposes to the same extent 
as labor performed and improvements made upon or for the benefit 
of mining claims which are not affected by this Act. 
(c) Any Avithdrawal or reservation made after the original location 
of such mining claim affecting land covered by such mining claim is 
hereby modified and amended so that the effect thereof upon such 
mining claim shall be the same as if such mining claim had been 
located upon lands of the United States, which, subsequent to July 
31, 1939, and prior to the date of such withdrawal, were subject to 
location under the mining laws of the United States. 
SEC. 2. Any mining claim given force and effect as provided in 
section 1 of this Act shall be subject to the reservation to the United 
States of all minerals which, upon the effective date of this Act, are 
provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder, and 
the right of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees, 
to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim to prospect for, 
mine, treat, store, and remove such minerals, and to use so much of 
the surface and subsurface of such mining claim as may be necessary 
for such purposes, and to enter upon such land whenever reasonably 
necessary for the purpose of prospecting for, mining, treating, stor-
ing, and removing such minerals on and from other lands of the 
United States; and any patent issued for any such mining claim shall 
contain such reservation. 
August 12, 1953 
[S. 1397] 
Mining c l a i m s , 
July 31, 1939-Jan. 
1, 1953. 
Force and effect. 
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PUBUC LAW 251-AUG. 12, 1953 
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60 Stat. 762. 
42 u s e 1805. 
48 u s e 432-452. 
30 u s e 
22-263 
passim, 2 7 1-2 7 6, 
281-284. 
SEC. 3. The rights under any mining claim given force and effect 
by this Act shall also be subject to the reservation to the United 
States specified in section 5 (b) (7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 
1946, as amended, and, in addition, any reservation or reservations 
required by any other provision or provisions of law; and any patent 
issued for such mining claim shall contain such reservations. 
SEC. 4. Except as this Act provides for (a) validation of certain 
mining claims located on lands described in section 1 of this Act, and 
(b) the modification and amendment of certain withdrawals or reser-
vations of land, nothing in this Act shall affect any power or author-
ity duly vested in the Atomic Energy Commission or any other 
agency, department or officer of the United States to make leases, 
withdrawals, reservations or other arrangements with respect to 
source materials as defined in section 5 (b) (1) of the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1946, as amended. 
SEC. 5. As used in this Act "mineral leasing laws" shall mean the 
Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741) ; the Act of February 25, 1920 
(41 Stat. 437) ; the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301) ; the Act of 
February 7,1927 (44 Stat. 1057) and all Acts heretofore or hereafter 
enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the 
foregoing Acts. 
Approved August 12, 1953. 
August 12, 1953 
[H. R. 5328] 
Public Law 251 
CHAPTER 406 
AN ACT 
To provide for the use of the tribal funds of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 
Mountain Reservation, to authorize a per capita payment out of such funds, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
TrYbl. **°""*®^" United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstand-
ing any other provisions of existing laws, the tribal funds now on 
niMrt! ''^"^ P°^' deposit or hereafter deposited in the United States Treasury to the 
credit of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 
may be expended or advanced for such purposes and in a manner, 
including per capita payments, the purchase of land or any interests 
therein or improvements thereon and water rights, as may be desig-
nated by the Ute Mountain Tribal Council and approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior: Provided^ That the purchase of taxable 
lands under this authority shall not operate to remove such lands from 
the tax rolls: Provided further^ That neither the transfer to the tribe 
of tribal funds, nor the distribution thereof to individual members of 
the tribe, as provided herein, from those funds consisting of compensa-
tion for lands acquired by the United States Government, shall be 
subject to Federal tax: And 
provided, further^ That any funds 
advanced for loans by the tribe to individual Indians or associations of 
Indians shall be subject to regulations established for the making 
of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 
18,1934 (25 U. S. C, sec. 470). 
SEC. 2. No part of the funds authorized to be expended or advanced 
pursuant to section 1 shall be paid or disbursed to or received by any 
agent or attorney on account of any contract for services rendered or 
to be rendered or expenses in the preparation of any suit against the 
United States. 
Approved August 12, 1953. 
48 Stat. 986. 
Restriction.