The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16] Page: 423 of 1,574
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GENERAL LAWS. 413
the life of the lease. In all such payments the owner or manager shall
accompany the remittance with a sworn statement of the amount produced,
and the market price of the output, and a copy of any pipe or
pipe lines or tank receipt, check or memoranda of amount put out or
into such lines or tanks. The books and accounts and the receipts and
discharges of all lines, pipe lines or tanks and gas lines and gas pipes,
and all other matters pertaining to the production, transportation and
marketing of the output shall be open to the examination and inspection
at all times by the Commissioner of the General Land Office or
his representative or any other representative of the State. The value
of any unpaid royalty or royalties and any sum or sums due to the
State upon any lease contract shall become a prior lien upon all production
of petroleum oil or natural gas produced upon the leased areas
to secure the payment of any royalties and sums due the State.
SEC. 9. In the event any land or water included within the operation
of this Act has heretofore been or may hereafter be sold by the State
with the reservation of minerals therein, or has been purchased by one
with the waiver of mineral rights, such land shall be subject to prospect
and lease as set forth in this Act, but the owner of the permit or lease
shall pay to the owner of the surface of the land twenty cents per acre
per annum in advance during the life of the permit or lease and the
first payment shall be paid to the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, for the use of the owner of the surface, prior to the issuance of
such permit, and said sum so paid to the owner of the surface rights
shall be in full compensation for all damages to such surface by reason
of the ingress and egress and operation necessary to development and
the operation under the permit or lease; provided, that if the owner or
lessee of the surface will not accept the payment of twenty cents per
acre per annum as above provided, and the lessee of the mineral rights
cannot agree with such owner or lessee of the surface rights on the compensation
to be paid for the use of the damages to such surface rights,
then the right thereto and the ingress and egress from such mine or
mining claim may be acquired by condemnation as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 10. No person, association of persons, corporate or otherwise,
shall hold or own at one time by permit or lease, direct or through assignment,
nor hold or own a controlling interest in more than two sections
of 640 acres each, more or less, of surveyed school land, University,
Asylum or other public land, nor more than 1280 acres of islands, lakes,
bays, marshes, reefs, or unsurveyed school, University or Asylum or
other public land in any undeveloped field nor more than two hundred
acres within ten miles of any producing oil or gas well.
SEC. 11. A person or association of persons, corporate or otherwise,
applying for a permit or lease shall file with the application a sworn
statement showing what interest, if any, the applicant or each of the
members of tibe association or each stockholder in the corporation may
hold in any other permit or lease issued by the State. When the Commissioner
is satisfied that the applicant is entitled to such permit or
lease he shall issue the permit for a term not to exceed two years, and
the lease may be issued for such time as the applicant may elect, not to
exceed ten years, with the right of a renewal or renewals upon such
. terms and conditions as hereinbefcre provided. The permit or lease
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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/m1/423/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .