Chapter 180. For the relief of the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company, Incorporated
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CHAP. 180.— An Act For the relief of the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company, Incorporated.February 23, 1927.[[S. 4669](/us/bill/69/s/4669).][[Private, No. 382](/us/pvtl/69/382).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company (Inc.).Claim of, for remission of rentals tinder prospecting oil and gas leases, to be examined.Vol. 41, p. 441. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to make an examination of the claim of the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company for a remission of any balance of the rentals claimed to be due under oil and gas prospecting leases Cheyenne 028177 .
(a)and 028177 (b), issued under the Act of February 25, 1920, entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain” (Forty-first Statutes, page 437), and if it shall be satisfactorily established that the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company has expended or caused to be expended $100,000 or more in the exploration and development of the land covered by said leases, in accordance with the provisions of an oil and gas prospecting permit, issued under said Act; and that said leases were entered into prematurely, and the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company has paid or caused to be paid $5,000 or more to the United States as rental under said leases, and has received no remuneration or return of any kind whatsoever, for the expenditures so made, then, in which event,1789 the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to cancelAuthority to cancel leases, etc. said leases if still in force and to release the Kentucky-Wyoming Oil Company from the payment of any rentals now due or which may hereafter become due under said leases. Approved, February 23, 1927.