Chapter 699. To authorize leasing, for the production of oil and gas, certain public lands in Carbon County, Wyoming
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CHAP. 699.— An Act To authorize leasing, for the production of oil and gas, certain public lands in Carbon County, Wyoming.June 26, 1926.[[H. R. 10980](/us/bill/69/hr/10980).][[Private, No. 224](/us/pvtl/69/224).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Carbon County, Wyo.Leasing of oil and gas deposits in described lands in, to designated parties, on release of placer mining rights. That upon relinquishment to the United States, filed in the General Land Office within six months after the approval of this Act, of all right, title, and interest claimed and possessed prior to February 25, 1920, and continuously since by Mark D.
Woolery, Dudley Sherman Wageley, Dorsey M. Kerr, Andrew J. Denny, Mabel G. Duncan, and Michael L. Lundy, or their predecessors in interest under the preexisting placer mining law, to the following described land, situate in the county of Carbon, State of Wyoming, and known as the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 34, township 20 north of range 78Royalties to be paid. west, sixth principal meridian, and upon payment as royalty to the United States of an amount equal to the value at the time of production of one-eighth of all the oil or gas already produced except oil or gas used for production purposes on the claim, or unavoidably lost, from such land, Mark D.
Woolery, Dudley Sherman Wageley, Dorsey M. Kerr, Andrew J. Denny, Mabel G. Duncan, and Michael L. Lundy, or their successors, shall be entitled to a lease thereon from the United States for a period of twenty years, at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum of all the oil and gas produced except oil or gas used for production purposes on the claim, or unavoidably lost. Such lease shall inure to tire benefit of the lessees and all personsParties benefited. claiming through or under them by lease, contract, or otherwise, as their interests may appear: *Provided*, That the lessees, their successors*Proviso*.Limitations. and inuring claimants, shall be subject to the same limitation as to area and acreage as is provided for claimant under section 18Vol. 41, p. 443. of the Act of February 25, 1920 (Public, Numbered 146), entitled “An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain.
” Such lease shall be made and the amount of royalty to be paid forExecution of leases. oil and gas produced, except oil or gas used for production purposes on the claim, or unavoidably lost, after the execution of such lease shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior under the “Regulations concerning oil and gas permits and leases approved March 11, 1920.” and amendments thereof. Approved, June 26, 1926.