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418 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
Article 5394: After the date of an award, the owner shall
have the exclusive right to the possession and use of the minerals
within the area of the claim so long as he continues to do
or causes to be done the annual assessment work for each claim
consisting of excavation in the form of shaft or tunnel or an
open cut to the extent of ten feet in depth or length and at least
four feet by five feet for the other dimensions, in event the
mineral sought to be mined is such as is usually and customarily
produced by means of shafts, tunnels or open cuts, but in event
-the mineral sought is usually and customarily produced from
,drilling holes by means of machinery, except such minerals as
,oil, natural gas, coal or lignite, then the drilling of a hole to
such depth or length in lieu of the digging of shaft or tunnel
or open cut shall constitute the annual assessment required. If
an award is issued prior to the first day of October of any year
the first annual assessment work shall be done before the end
of that calendar year, and during the month of January following,
such owner shall file in the Land Office his affidavit that
such work has been done and shall state the extent thereof.
Such owner shall, during each suceeding calendar year beginning
January first next after the date of such award, perform
the required annual assessment work and file an affidavit thereof
as in the first instance. All the assessment work for a contiguous
group of claims may be done on one claim.
SEC. 2. The fact that there is now no adequate law requiring
the drilling of holes for the purpose of prospecting for mineral
bearing deposits other than oil, natural gas, coal and lignite,
creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each House be suspended, and said rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act shall takd effect and be in force from
and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
[NOTPE.-S. B. No. 402 passed the Senate without a roll call;
passed the House, 103 ayes, 2 nays; received in Executive Office
March 15, 1927, and in Department of State April 5, 1927,
without Governor's signature.]
Effective (90) ninety days after adjournment.
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/434/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .