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GENERAL LAWS. 409O
SCHOOL LANDS-RELATING TO PROSPECTING AND DEVELOPING
MINERALS THEREON.
S. B. No. 128.] CHAPTER 173.
An Act relating to prospecting and developing minerals on land owned by the
State of Texas, by the public free school fund and University and Asylum
funds, and upon such land as the State has heretofore sold or may hereafter
sell with reservation of the mineral therein and upon such land as may have
been purchased with the waiver of mineral rights; and also the prospecting
and development of minerals in fresh water lakes and in islands, bays,
marshes, reefs and sale water lakes; relating to the disposition of the minerals
and mineral rights therein; authorizing the lease of such lands and the
mineral rights therein; providing royalties and other compensation to be paid
to the State therefor; appropriating to certain funds the proceeds arising from
such development; authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations to carry
out the provisions of this Act; providing penalties for violations of the provisions
of this Act; prescribing terms upon which, and the method by which,
access to mineral deposits may be acquired by condemnation or otherwise;
repealing Chapter 1, Title 93, of the Revised Civil Statutes adopted in 1911,
and declaring an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. All public school, University, Asylum and the other
public lands, fresh water lakes, islands, bays, marshes, reefs, and salt
water lakes; belonging to the State of Texas, and all lands which may
hereafter be so owned and all lands which have been heretofore sold or
disposed of by the State of Texas, with a reservation of minerals or
mineral rights therein, as well as all lands which may hereafter be sold
with reservation of minerals or mineral rights therein, and lands purchased
with relinquishment of the minerals therein, shall be included
within the provisions of this Act and shall be open to mineral prospecting,
mineral development and the lease of mineral rights therein in the
manner herein provided. Only citizens of the United States and such
other persons as have heretofore declared or shall hereafter declare their
intention of becoming such shall be entitled to acquire any rights under
this Act. It is declared to be the policy of the State to open all such
lands to mineral prospecting and development on a system providing
for the payment into the State Treasury to the credit of the permanent
free school, University, Asylum or other funds, of certain rents and'
royalties upon the gross output of any minerals or mineral product:
thereon.
SEC. 2. Any person or association of persons, corporate or otherwise,.
desiring to obtain the right to prospect for and develop petroleum oil
or natural gas that may be in any of the surveyed public free school
land, University or Asylum or other public lands of the State, which
may be unsold at the time such desire is made known as herein provided,
or in any of said land which has heretofore been sold with the
reservation of minerals therein to the public free school fund or other
fund and such of said land as has heretofore been purchased with the
relinquishment of the minerals therein by the purchaser, or in any of
said land that may hereafter be sold with the reservation of minerals
therein, also in any of the fresh water lakes owned by the State or public
free school fund or other fund, and also in any of the islands, bays,
marshes, reefs and salt water lakes, may do so under the regulations,
terms and conditions of this Act, together with such rules and regula
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