---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 87"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "87"
heading: "Statements in application; patents"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/87"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone"
  - "Subchapter II — Coal Land Entries under Nonmineral Land Laws with Reservation of Coal to United States"
---

# §87. Statements in application; patents


Any applicant for lands mentioned in [section 86 of this title](/usc/30/86.md) shall state in his application that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections [86](/usc/30/86.md) to [89](/usc/30/89.md) of this title, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of sections [86](/usc/30/86.md) to [89](/usc/30/89.md) of this title shall be entitled to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.


## Source credit

(Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, § 2, 39 Stat. 945.)