Chapter 19. To amend sections 23 and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437)
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Chap. 19: To amend sections 23 and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437). 1928-12-11 19 Chapter 45 Stat. 1019 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public 1019 Chapter 19.— An Act To amend sections 23 and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437).
December 11, 1928.[[H. R. 10885](/us/bill/70/hr/10885).][[Public, No. 631](/us/pl/70/631).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That sections 23Public lands.Nonmetallic mineral deposits on. and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437), are hereby amended toVol. 41, p. 447, amended. read as follows: " “Sec. 23. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized,Prospecting permits allowed for sodium compounds. under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Area limited.
That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form. Sec. 24. That upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary ofLease to permittee of the area in which discovery made. the Interior that valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated in section 23 hereof have been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit and that such land is chiefly valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit at a royaltyRoyalty. of not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and other related products at the point of shipment to market; the lands in such lease to be taken in compact form by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys or, if the land be not surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Lands known to contain valuable deposits of oneLands containing known deposits subject to lease. of the substances enumerated in section 23 hereof and not covered by permits or leases shall be subject to lease by the Secretary of the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt and in such areas as he shall fix, not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres. All leases under this section shall be conditioned uponRoyalty, rentals, etc. the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease, not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and other related products at the point of shipment to market, and the payment in advance of a rental of 25 cents per acre for the first calendar year or fraction thereof, 50 cents per acre for the second, third, fourth, and fifth calendar years respectively; and $1 per acre per annum thereafter during the continuance of the lease, such rental for any one year to be credited against royalties accruing for that year.
Leases underTerm of leases. this section shall be for a period of twenty years, with preferential right in the lessee to renew for successive periods of ten years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior unless otherwise provided by law at the expiration of such period: *Provided*, That nothing in this Act shall*Provisos*.Sales, etc., of compounds under potassium leases not forbidden.Vol. 40, p. 297. Vol. 44,p. 1057. prohibit the mining and sale of sodium compounds under potassium leases issued pursuant to the Acts of October 2, 1917 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 297), and February 7, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1057), nor the mining and sale of potassium compounds as a by-product from sodium leases taken under this section: *Provided further*, That on application by any lessee theModification of present leases.
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to modify the rental and royalty provisions stipulated in any existing sodium lease to conform to the provisions of this section.” " Approved, December 11, 1928.
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Chapter 19
To amend sections 23 and 24 of the General Leasing Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437)
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