---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 49b"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "49b"
heading: "Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/49b"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General"
---

# §49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska


The general mining laws of the United States so far as they are applicable to placer-mining claims, as prior to May 4, 1934, extended to the Territory of Alaska, are declared to be in full force and effect in said Territory: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to change or affect the rights acquired by locators or owners of placer-mining claims prior to May 4, 1934, located in said Territory under act August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118).


## Source credit

(May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 2, 48 Stat. 663.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amenda­tory act March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118), referred to in text, were repealed by section 1 of act May 4, 1934. See sections 35 to 37 and 49b of this title.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to sections 119 and 381a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Act May 4, 1934, ch. 211, § 3, 48 Stat. 663, provided that: “This Act [enacting this section] shall take effect thirty days subsequent to the date of convening of the first regular session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature which is held after the passage of this Act [May 4, 1934].”

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.