Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves: Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate on S. Res. 282, 294, [434 and 147], October 22, 1923-[May 14, 1924. Part 1-14].

Portada

Dentro del libro

Páginas seleccionadas

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 338 - Whereas plans for the orderly transfer of administrative responsibility for the island of Guam from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior...
Página 179 - An act to provide for the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain...
Página 16 - ... will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits.
Página 17 - ... residue shall be returned to the lessee with no substantial delay in the delivery of gas produced from the well to the purchaser thereof...
Página 179 - That by reason of the existence of a state of war, it is essential to the national security and defense, for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds...
Página 17 - Secretary, in his discretion, in making any lease under this act may reserve to the United States the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within such lease under existing law or laws hereafter enacted, in so far as said surface is not necessary for use of the lessee...
Página 188 - No contract shall be entered into for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement which shall bind the government to pay a larger sum of money than the amount in the Treasury appropriated for the specific purpose.
Página 179 - Act, and to this end is authorized to make such regulations and to issue such orders as he may deem necessary...
Página 154 - Stat., 847), shall hereafter, subject to valid existing rights, constitute Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1 and shall be held for the exclusive use or benefit of the United States Navy until this order is revoked by the President or by act of Congress. To this end and for this public purpose the order of July 2, 1910, Is modified and the withdrawal of that date is continued and extended in so far as it affects these lands.

Información bibliográfica