Chapter 287. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to protect the locators in good faith of oil and gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on the public lands of the United States, or their successors in interest,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven
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CHAP. 287.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to protect the locators in good faith of oil and gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on the public lands of the United States, or their successors in interest,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven. August 25, 1914.[[S. 5673](/us/bill/63/s/5673).][[Public, No. 187](/us/pl/63/187).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Locators of mineral oil and gas lands.Vol. 36, p. 1015, amended.
That an Act entitled “An Act to protect the locators in good faith of oil and gas lands who shall have effected an actual discovery of oil or gas on the public lands of the United States, or their successors in interest,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, be amended by adding thereto the following section: " “Sec. 2. Agreements for working reserved lands prior to issue of patents. That where applications for patents have been or may hereafter be offered for any oil or gas land included in an order of withdrawal upon which oil or gas has heretofore been discovered, or is being produced, or upon which drilling operations were in actual progress on October third, nineteen hundred and ten, and oil or gas is thereafter discovered thereon, and where there has been no final709 determination by the Secretary of the Interior upon such applications for patent, said Secretary, in his discretion, may enter into agreements, under such conditions as he may prescribe with such applicants for patents in possession of such land or any portions thereof, relative to the disposition of the oil or gas produced therefrom or the proceedsDisposal of proceeds under. thereof, pending final determination of the title thereto by the Secretary of the Interior, or such other disposition of the same as may be authorized by law.
Any money which may accrue to the UnitedLands in Naval Petroleum Reserves. States under the provisions of this Act from lands within the Naval Petroleum Reserves shall be set aside for the needs of the Navy and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of a fund to be known as the Navy Petroleum Fund, which fund shall be applied to the needs of theDisposal of receipts. Navy as Congress may from time to time direct, by appropriation or otherwise.” " Approved, August 25, 1914.