The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 420 of 1,574
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410 GENERAL LAWS.
tions as may be adopted relative thereto and necessary for the execution
of the purpose of this Act by the Commissioner of the General Land
Office.
SEC. 3. One desiring to obtain the right to prospect for and develop
petroleum oil or natural gas that may be in any of the surveyed lands
mentioned herein shall first file with the.clerk of the court of the county
in which the area desired, or a portion thereof, is situated, or with the
clerk of the county to which said county may be attached for judicial
purposes, a seperate application in writing for each tract applied for,
designating the land in which he desires to acquire the aforesaid rights.
No individual or corporation shall be awarded exceeding 1280 acres of
the public lands the State for oil or gas development purposes, and no
individual or corporation shall be awarded exceeding 200 acres for oil
and gas development purposes within ten miles of any producing oil or
gas well. The said 1280 acres in undeveloped territory, or the 200 acres
within ten miles of any producing oil or gas well, may be in as many
different tracts of land of fresh water lakes as the applicant may desire,
provided the applicant correctly describes the land or fresh water
lakes desired for development purposes. The lines of all tracts less than
a whole survey shall conform to the exterior of the lines of the survey
of which it may be a part, as nearly as practicable. The said clerk
shall file and record the application or applications aforesaid and note
the same on his register opposite the entry of the proper survey if surveyed
or in his record hook if unsurveyed, giving the time of filing, and
the applicant shall file such application in the General Land Office together
with one dollar as filing fees within thirty days after the date
it was filed by the county clerk.
SEC. 4. One desiring to obtain the right to prospect for and develop
petroleum oil or natural gas in any of the States' islands, salt water
lakes, bays, marshes, reefs and fresh water lakes owned by the State, or
in any of the unsurveyed public land, shall first file a separate written
application for each tract applied for with the county surveyor of the
county in which the area or a part of same may be situated or the county
to which said county may be attached for surveying purposes giving a
designation of the same sufficient to identify it. The surveyor shall immediately
file and record same, giving time of such filing, and within
ninety days thereafter he shall survey and deliver to the applicant the
field notes and original application. Said papers, together with one
dollar as filing fee, shall be filed in the in the General Land Office, within
one hundred days after the application was filed with the county surveyor,
and not thereafter. Locations and surveys under this Section
shall not exceed 1280
acres in undeveloped territory and not exceeding
200 acres within ten miles of a producing. gas or oil well. All locations
and surveys under this Section shall, if practicable, be of regular form,
but in every case the line or lines adjacent to other surveys shall conform
to the lines of such adjacent surveys. If there are no adjacent
surveys the surveyor shall connect such survey with some established
survey on the main land.
SEC. 5. When the Commissioner receives an application, or application
and field notes, as provided for in the two preceding sections, within
the time required, together with the filing fee of one dollar, he shall
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/420/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .