---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 172"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "172"
heading: "Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/172"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone"
  - "Subchapter IX — Disposal of Alabama Lands as Agricultural Lands"
---

# §172. Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry


All lands designated as agricultural in the reclassification of the public lands of Alabama by the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior under authority of Act March 27, 1906 (chapter 1347, [section 1](/usc/30/1.md), Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 88), shall be subject to homestead entry as such.


## Source credit

(Mar. 27, 1906, ch. 1347, § 2, 34 Stat. 88.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act March 27, 1906 (chapter 1347, section 1, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 88), referred to in text, is not classified to the Code.