Amending the Oil and Gas Leasing Act of 1920: Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5530 (H.R. 8289), a Bill to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Promote the Mining of Coal, Phosphate, Oil, Oil Shale, Gas, and Sodium on the Public Domain" Approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; U.S.C., Title 30, Secs. 185, 221, 223, and 226), as Amended. April 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 23, 1935

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 269 pages

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Page 121 - ... shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury after the expiration of each fiscal year to the State within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, said moneys to be used by such State or...
Page 121 - Senate of the State of California, jointly. That the Legislature of the State of California respectfully memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States...
Page 116 - Provided, That all moneys which may accrue to the United States under the provisions of this Act from lands within the naval petroleum reserves shall be deposited in the Treasury as
Page 2 - ... preference right over others to a permit for the land so identified. The applicant shall, within ninety days after receiving a permit, mark each of the corners of the tract described in the permit upon the ground with substantial monuments, so that the boundaries can be readily traced on the ground, and shall post in a conspicuous place upon the lands a notice that such permit has been granted and a description of the lands covered thereby: Provided, That in the Territory of Alaska prospecting...
Page 109 - An act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases (36 Stat, 847)," shall hereafter, subject to valid existing rights, constitute Naval Petroleum Reserve No.
Page 259 - States and are not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field upon condition that the permittee shall begin drilling operations within six months from the date of the permit, and shall, within one year from and after the date of permit, drill one or more wells for oil or gas to a depth of not less than five hundred feet each, unless valuable deposits of oil or gas shall be sooner discovered...
Page 4 - That any lease issued under the provisions of this act may be forfeited and canceled by an appropriate proceeding in the United States district court for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located...
Page 49 - It is agreed that this lease shall remain in force for a term of years from this date, and as long thereafter as oil or gas, or either of them, is produced from said land by the lessee.
Page 260 - The area to be selected by the permittee shall be in compact form and, if surveyed, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the...
Page 251 - ... or of any company operating the same which may be operated accessible to the oil derived from lands under such lease, shall at reasonable rates and without discrimination accept and convey the oil of the Government -or of any citizen or company not the owner of any pipe line, operating a lease or purchasing gas or oil under the provisions of this Act...

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