ACTS OF CONGRESS 341 



SELECTION COAL LANDS. SECS. 598-600 



it repeats, without material change, the language of the appropriation acts 

 which have been passed from year to year under the head "Surveying the Pacific 

 Lands." 



The acts of 1890 above referred to are those providing for the admission 

 of Idaho and Wyoming. 



SEC. 598. LANDS MAY BE WITHDRAWN FROM SELECTION. 



The President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily with- 

 draw from settlement, location, sale or entry, any of the public lands 

 of the United States and reserve the same for water power sites, 

 irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be speci- 

 fied in the orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations 

 shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress. 

 (Act June 25, '10; 36 Stat. L., p. 847, sec. 1; Fed. Stat. Ann., '12 Supp., 

 p. 321; Comp. Stat, '11 Supp., p. 593.) 



Withdrawal for national forests : sec. 625 et seq., post; for reclamation 

 projects: sec. 613, post; under Carey Act: sec. 605 et seq., post; for national 

 monuments : Act June 8, '06 (34 Stat. L., p. 225) ; proclamation establishing Mt. 

 Olympus Monument, 35 Stat. L., p. 2247. 



Cited : 206 Fed. 141 ; 39 Land Dec. 88, 156, 339, 544, 563, 604 ; 40 L. D. 

 27, 235, 305, 321, 394, 409, 462, 549, 558, 571, 592. 



SEC. 599. COAL LANDS SUBJECT TO SELECTION FOR RECLAMA- 

 TION. 



From and after the passage of this section unreserved public lands 

 of the United States exclusive of Alaska which have been withdrawn 

 or classified as coal lands, or are valuable for coal, shall be subject 

 * * * to selection under the next following chapter of this code, 

 and to withdrawal under section 613 hereof whenever such selection 

 or withdrawal shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title, 

 with a reservation to the United States of the coal in such lands and 

 of the right to prospect for, mine and remove the same. (Act June 22, 

 '10; 36 Stat. L., p. 583, sec. 1; Fed. Stat. Ann., '12 Supp., p. 317; Comp. 

 Stat., '11 Supp., p. 614.) 



NOTE : The act from which this section is adapted extends its privileges to 

 homestead and desert entries. Sec. 2 of the act requires notice of selection or 

 withdrawal of such lands to state that the same is made in accordance therewith. 

 Sec. 3 provides for patent with appropriate reservations and for the exercise 

 of the reserved rights. 



Cited: 39 Land Dec. 76, 156, 179, 240, 255, 339, 463, 494, 545, 604; 

 40 L. D. 17, 25, 34, 45, 277, 306, 341, 419, 440, 462, 550, 593, 654. 



SEC. 600. SAME FOR GRANTED AND LIEU LANDS. 



From and after the passage of this section unreserved public lands 

 of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn 

 or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition 

 to the classes of entries or filings described in the preceding section 

 be subject to selection by the several states within whose limits the 

 lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, * * * but there 

 shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such 



