Rule 35. PRESCRIBING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH PIPE LINE COMPANIES MAY CONNECT WITH OIL OR GAS WELLS. Pipe line companies shall not connect with oil or gas wells until the owners or operators thereof shall furnish a certificate from the Corporation Commission that the conservation laws of the State have been complied with; provided, this rule shall not prevent the temporary connection with any well or wells in order to take care of production and prevent waste until opportunity shall have been given the owner or operator of said well to secure certificate showing compliance with the conservation laws of the State.

Rule 36. CONSERVATION LAWS AND RULES OF THE CORPORATION COMMISSION TO BE COMPLIED WITH BEFORE CONNECTING WELLS WITH PIPE LINES. Owners or operators of oil or gas wells shall, before connecting with any oil or gas pipe line, secure from the Corporation Commission a certificate showing compliance with the oil and gas conservation laws of the State and conservation orders of the Corporation Commission; provided that this rule shall not prevent temporary connection with pipe lines in order to take care of production until opportunity shall have been given for securing such certificate; provided, further, that the owners or operators of such wells shall in a known or proven field make application for such certificate in anticipation of production.

Rule 37. DRILLING RECORDS TO BE KEPT AT WELLS. All operators, contractors, or drillers shall keep at each well accurate records of the drilling, re-drilling, or deepening of all wells, showing all formations drilled through, casing used, and other information in connection with drilling and operation of the property and any and all of this information shall be furnished to the Commission upon request, or to any conservation agent of the Commission. Rule 38. CONSERVATION AGENTS TO HAVE ACCESS TO ALL WELLS AND ALL WELL RECORDS. Conservation agents of the Commission shall have access to all wells and to all well records, and all companies, contractors, or drillers shall permit any conservation agent of the Corporation Commission to come upon any lease or property operated or controlled by them, and to inspect any and all wells and the records of said well or wells, and to have access at all times to any and all wells, and any and all records of said wells. Provided, that information so obtained by conservation agents shall be considered official information and shall be reported only to the Corporation Commission.

Rule 39. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS, DRILLERS, AND OTHERS TO OBSERVE RULES. All contractors and drillers carrying on business or doing work in the oil or gas fields of the State, as well as lease-holders, land owners, and operators generally, shall take notice of and are hereby directed to observe and apply the foregoing rules and regulations; and all contractors, drillers, land owners, and operators will be held responsible for infraction of said rules and regulations.

Rule 40. CONSERVATION AGENTS TO CO-OPERATE WITH OIL AND GAS INSPECTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. All conservation agents appointed by the Corporation Commission shall co-operate with and invite the co-operation of the oil and gas inspectors of the United States Bureau of Mines of the Department of the Interior.

Rule 41. CONSERVATION AGENTS TO ASSIST IN ENFORCEMENT OF RULES. All conservation agents of the Commission shall assist in the enforcement of these rules and shall immediately notify the Commission upon observance of any infraction thereof.

ADDITIONAL RULES WILL BE PRESCRIBED FROM TIME TO TIME.

The Commission will from time to time prescribe additional rules, regulations, and requirements for the conservation of crude oil, or petroleum, and natural gas.

This Order shall be in full force and effect from and after August 20, 1917. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and caused to be affixed the seal of said commission, this the 16th day of July, 1917.

Corporation Commission.

J. E. LOVE, Chairman.

W. D. HUMPHREY, Commissioner,
CAMPBELL RUSSELL, Commissioner.

(ATTEST): J. H. HYDE, Secretary.

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Sec. 3544. * * * Oil Companies to Pay License. That in addition to the taxes now provided for by law, every * company, doing business in this state, shall pay to the state of Oregon, a license of three (3) per centum upon the gross earnings of such company in this state, which license shall be paid annually by such company to the treasurer of this state. (Laws 1907, p. 9, sec. 1.)

Sec. 3547. Oil Company Defined.

Any nonresident person or persons and every joint stock company or corporation not having its principal place of business within this state, or not being organized or incorporated under the laws of the state of Oregon, engaged in the business of buying and selling, or buying or selling oil (petroleum in its various products) within the state of Oregon, and any and all persons, companies, and corporations doing business in this state as the representative of any or either of the aforesaid persons or corporations, on commission or otherwise, and any person or persons, joint stock company, or corporation, resident within this state or organized or incorporated under the laws thereof, engaged in the business of buying and selling oil (petroleum in its various products) produced, obtained, or refined by either or any of the aforesaid nonresident persons, companies, or corporations, and whose business done annually in such special line amounts in the gross to twenty-five per centum of the total annual gross receipts of such person, company, or corporation from all lines in which he or it deals, and any person

or persons, joint stock company, or corporation, wherever organized or incorporated, engaged in the business of operating cars for the transportation of such oil in this state on or over any railway line or lines in whole or in part within the state of Oregon, such line or lines not being owned or leased by such person, company, or corporation, shall be deemed an oil company, within the meaning of this act. (Laws 1907, p. 10, sec. 4.)

Sec. 3548. Statements Required.

It shall be the duty of the president, secretary, and treasurer of such

oil company, or of such of said officers as reside within this state, or if neither of such officers reside in this state, then of the general manager or agent, or other officer of such company or corporation having general control, management, or supervision of its business in this state, to transmit to the state treasurer, on or before the first day of March of each year, a statement, under oath, of the gross receipts of such company, corporation, or business, from business transacted within this state during the preceding year, ending December 31st, giving in such statement also the following facts:

1. The name of the firm, company, business, or corporation.

2. The nature of the business transacted by such firm, business, company or corporation.

3. The location of its principal office, and under what laws it is organized or incorporated, and whom, if any one, it represents, and if in the twenty-five per cent class above mentioned, then whose wares it handles.

4. The name, post-office address, and place of residence of the proprietor, or the chief officer or managing agent of the business or company in the state of Oregon.

5. The name, post-office address, and place of residence of proprietor—if simply a firm, and if a company or corporation, then of the president, secretary, auditor, and treasurer.

6. A detailed statement of the real estate (if any) owned by the firm or company in the state of Oregon, where situated, and the value thereof as assessed for taxation. (Laws 1907, p. 10, Sec. 5.)

Sec. 3549. Proceedings to Enforce Statement and Payment.

If such * * * oil company, shall fail to make such statement, or to pay such license, for the period of thirty days from and after such statement is required by this act to be made, or after such license is due and payable, as herein provided, the amount thereof, with the addition of ten per centum thereon for such failure, shall be collected of such company, for the use of this state, and the same is hereby declared to be and is made a debt due and owing from such company to the state of Oregon, and the attorney-general of the state, or the district attorney of the proper judicial district, shall commence and prosecute to final determination in any court of competent jurisdiction an action at law to collect the same, and, to that end and for the purpose of making this act more effective, the said attorney-general, or district attorney, as the case may be, or both, shall have the same power and authority to call before him or them, officers or agents or representatives of such delinquent company, and other witnesses, for examination bearing upon the receipts of such company, in the same manner that the district attorneys now have with reference to criminal matters; and it is hereby made the duty of the state treasurer within ten days from and after the expiration of the said thirty days' time limit hereinbefore mentioned, to give notice of such delinquency to the attorneygeneral of the state. (Laws 1907, p. 11, Sec. 6.)

Sec. 3550. Penalty for Failure.

If any officer of any company or corporation, or other person, mentioned in the preceding sections of this act shall fail, refuse, or neglect to make and file

such annual statement of the gross receipts in this state, of the firm, company, or corporation, of which he is such proprietor or officer or agent, for thirty days after the first day of March in each year, on conviction thereof he shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500, no more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court; and the district attorney of the proper judicial district shall commence and prosecute to final determination in any court of competent jurisdiction an action at law to enforce this penalty. (Laws 1907, p. 11, Sec. 7.)

LAWS 1913, P. 111.

CHAPTER 73.

FEBRUARY 21, 1913.

AN ACT to amend Section 6713 of Lord's Oregon Laws, as amended by Chapter 24, General Laws of Oregon for year 1911.

Be it enacted, etc.:

Sec. 1. That Section 6713 of Lord's Oregon Laws be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 6713. Every corporation formed or organized under and pursuant to the laws of the State of Oregon, whether now existing or hereafter created, for the purpose of engaging in the business of mining for any of the precious metals, coal, or prospecting or operating for oil, or operating an oil well, and whose business it shall be to engage in said business only, shall, during the month of June each year, and on or before the first day of July of each year furnish to the Secretary of State, upon blanks to be supplied by him for that purpose, a correct statement sworn to by one of its officers before some officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in detail the name of the corporation, the location of its principal office, the name of the president, secretary, and treasurer thereof, with the postoffice address of each, the date of the annual election of officers and directors of such corporation, the amount of the authorized capital stock, the number of shares and the par value of each share, the amount of capital stock subscribed, the amount of capital stock issued, and the amount of capital stock paid up, the amount of its properties in this State and where the same are located; also stating in general terms the amount of work done thereon and improvements made thereon since the time of filing the last annual report, together with a statement of the amount and value of the annual output or products of the mines, coal, or wells of such corporation, between the first day of January and the thirty-first day of December of the year preceding, and that said corporation is not engaged in or transacting any other business except that of locating, prospecting, developing or operating mines for precious metals, coal, or wells for oil, and any such mining or oil corporation whose annual output or products shall not exceed in value the sum of $1,000, shall, if such above provided statement is filed in the office of the Secretary of State during the month of June, and on or before the first day of July of each year, thereupon be exempt from the payment of the annual license fee as now provided by law; but in lieu thereof shall pay an annual license fee of $10; provided, that no such corporation shall be required to make such statement if it shall file the statement and pay the annual license fee required by "An Act to provide for the licensing of domestic corporations, and foreign corporations, joint-stock companies and associations," etc., approved February 16, 1903, or hereafter required by law.