---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 9"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "9"
heading: "Acceptance of lands from States"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — United States Bureau of Mines"
---

# §9. Acceptance of lands from States


The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept lands, buildings, or other contributions from the several States offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of [section 8 of this title](/usc/30/8.md).


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 95, § 2, 38 Stat. 959; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

See note set out under section 1 of this title.