VALUATION-FIXED BY STATE BOARD. "Sec. 2451. The state board of equalization shall at least ten days before the date fixed for making assessments, classify and prescribe and fix the valuation, each year, for the assessment of the gross product, in tons, gallons, or thousands of cubic feet, as the case may be, of all mines, or mining claims, from which gold, silver, or other precious minerals, soda, saline, coal, petroleum, or other crude or mineral oil, or natural gas, or other valuable deposit is produced." (Remaining sections of original act of February 21, 1903.) AUDITOR-DUTY OF. Sec. 4. On or before ten days prior to the day fixed for beginning assessments, or so soon thereafter as the State Board of Equalization shall have made and determined the valuation and assessment of said property, the State Auditor shall certify to the Assessor of the county where such property is situated, the valuation and assessment on such property said Board so fixed, and the assessors shall enter such valuation and assessment upon the list of taxable property in the assessment rolls of the county. PENALTY FOR FALSE REPRESENTATION. Sec. 5. Any person who shall knowingly make any false or fraudulent representation in said statement shall be deemed guilty of perjury. PENALTY FOR NEGLECT OF DUTY. Sec. 6. Any owner, owners, lessee or operator of any mine or mining claim who shall fail, neglect or refuse to make the assessment schedule statement provided for in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months. TAKES EFFECT-WHEN. Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage: provided, however, that no return of said property shall be required under this act for the year expiring immediately preceding the first day of January, A. D. 1903. CANADA, I. STATUTES. II. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. CONTENTS. I. STATUTES. Oil Bounty for production__. II. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Oil Importations-Duty free-. Prospecting-Discovery-Grant of land-Consideration. Navy reservation____. Oil meters Oil and gas- Locations-Production-Lease-Regulations Extended to Dominion forest reserves. Orders in council amended__ I. STATUTES. OIL. BOUNTY FOR PRODUCTION. STATUTES 1910 (9-10 EDWARD VII), P. 393. CHAPTER 46. AN ACT to provide for the payment of Bounties on crude petroleum. HIS MAJESTY, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS: 1. This act may be cited as The Petroleum Bounty Act, 1909. 2. The Governor in Council may authorize the payment out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of a bounty of one and one-half cents per imperial gallon on all crude petroleum having a specific gravity not less than .8235 at 60 degrees by Fahrenheit's thermometer produced from wells in Canada or from shales or other substances mined in Canada on and after the day on which this Act comes into force, the said bounty to be paid to or divided amongst the producers of the petroleum, the owner or occupier of the soil through which it is mined or won, or such other person interested, or injuriously affected by the mining operations or works, as the Governor in Council by regulation approves. 3. The Minister of Trade and Commerce shall be charged with the administration of this Act, and may, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, make such regulations as he deems necessary respecting the payment of the said bounties. 4. Chapter 33 of the statutes of 1907, and the Petroleum Bounty Act, 1908, chapter 52 of the statutes of 1908, are repealed. II. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. OIL. IMPORTATIONS-DUTY FREE. PROSPECTING DISCOVERY-GRANT OF LAND -CONSIDERATION. OIL METERS. IMPORTATIONS-DUTY FREE. STATUTES 1904 (4 EDWARD VII), P. XXXI. ORDER OF MARCH 9, 1904. By order in Council of the 9th of March, 1904, oil (petroleum) was transferred to the list of goods which may be imported into Canada free of duty when imported by miners or mining companies or concerns, to be used in the concentration of ores of metal in their own concentrating establishments, under such regulations as the Minister of Customs may prescribe. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xxxvii, p. 1798.) PROSPECTING-DISCOVERY-GRANT OF LAND-CONSIDERATION. STATUTES 1904 (4 EDWARD VII), P. XXXVIII. ORDER OF MARCH 23, 1904. By Order in Council of the 23rd of March, 1904, sections 1 and 2 of the regulations governing the disposal of Dominion lands containing petroleum established by the Order in Council of the 31st of May, 1901, and amended by Order in Council of the 22nd of December, 1902, were rescinded and the following substituted therefor: 1. All unappropriated Dominion lands in Manitoba, the Northwest Territories and within the Yukon Territory shall be open to prospecting for petroleum by an individual or company desiring to do so. In case there should arise any dispute as to whether lands are or are not unappropriated, the question shall be decided by the Minister of the Interior whose decision shall be final: Provided, however, that the Minister may reserve for an individual or company who has machinery on the land to be prospected, an area of 1,920 acres for such period as he may decide. This tract of land may be selected by the said individual or company so soon as the machinery has been placed on the ground, but the length of such tract shall not exceed three times its breadth. 2. Should oil in paying quantities be discovered by a prospector on any vacant lands of the Crown, and should such discovery be established to the satisfaction of the Minister of the Interior, an area not exceeding 640 acres of land, including the oil well, will be sold to the person or company making such discovery at the rate of $1 per acre, and the remainder of the area reserved, namely, 1,280 acres, will be sold at the rate of $3 per acre. The patent for the land will convey the surface and the petroleum, but will exclude all other minerals. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xxxvii, p. 1970.) STATUTES 1905 (4-5 EDWARD VII), P. XLIII. ORDER OF OCTOBER 1, 1904. By Order in Council of the 1st of October, 1904, section 1 of the regulations governing the disposal of Dominion lands containing petroleum, established by the Order in Council of the 23rd March, 1904, was rescinded, and the following section substituted therefor : 1. All unappropriated Dominion lands in Manitoba, the North-west Territories and within the Yukon Territory, shall be open to prospecting for petroleum by an individual or company desiring to do so. In case there should arise any dispute as to whether lands are or are not unappropriated, the question shall be decided by the Minister of the Interior whose decision shall be final; provided, however, that the Minister may reserve for an individual or company who has machinery on the land to be prospected, an area of 1,920 acres for such period as he may decide. This tract of land may be selected by the said individual or company so soon as machinery has been placed on the ground, but the length of such tract shall not exceed three times the breadth thereof; where the circumstances of the case, however, appear to oe exceptional the Minister of the Interior may permit the selection to be made in areas of not less than a quarter-section, or a fractional quarter-section, which may have resulted from the convergence of meridians, in such section affected, and the several parcels of land selected must be contiguous. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xxxviii, p. 817.) STATUTES 1906 (6 EDWARD VII), P. XLV. ORDER OF JULY 22, 1905. By order in Council of the 22nd of July, 1905, the regulations governing prospecting for petroleum on unappropriated Dominion lands in Manitoba, Northwest Territories and within the Yukon Territory, established by Order in Council dated 31st May, 1901, as amended by subsequent Orders in Council, were adopted for lands the surface rights of which have been disposed of. It was also ordered that the prospector before entering upon such lands shall obtain a lease from the owner of the surface rights upon such form as may be approved by the Minister of the Interior. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xxxix, p. 417.) STATUTES 1907 (6-7 EDWARD VII), P. CIV. ORDER OF DECEMBER 26, 1906. By Order in Council of the 26th of December, 1906, the regulations governing the reservation and sale of lands in Manitoba, what was formerly the Northwest Territories, and in the Yukon Territory, established by Order in Council of the 31st May, 1901, as amended by subsequent orders in council, were amended by adding the following provision thereof:— 66 The Minister may, upon application, make a preliminary reservation of an area of 1,920 acres for a period of four months for the purpose of allowing an applicant sufficient time to install on the land the required machinery. Each application for a preliminary reservation shall be accompanied by a fee of $100, which amount may be applied on account of the purchase price of the land in case oil in paying quantities is discovered, or may be refunded in case no discovery is made: Provided, however, that in the event of the applicant failing within the above period of four months to place on the land reserved for him, prospecting machinery to the satisfaction of the Minister, the reservation will be cancelled, and no refund will be made of the fee paid. The tract to be included in a petroleum reservation shall be selected in accordance with these regulations, and the rights and privileges granted under such reservation shall not be assignable." It was further ordered that the regulations established by orders in council for the reservation and sale of petroleum lands shall apply also to the reservation and sale of lands for natural gas purposes. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xl, p. 1844.) NAVY RESERVATION. STATUTES 1911 (1-2 GEO. V), P. XC. ORDER OF OCTOBER 12, 1910. By Order in Council of the 12th of October, 1910, it was ordered that the following provision be inserted in all leases issued by the Crown of lands for petroleum purposes : "That if in the opinion of the Minister the said petroleum or its products or any portion thereof should at any time during this demise be required for the use of His Majesty's Canadian Navy, the Minister shall have a right of preemption of all crude petroleum oil or its products gotten or won under this demise, for such use as aforesaid, the price to be agreed on between the Minister and the lessee or in the case of difference to be fixed by the Exchequer Court of Canada." (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xliv, p. 1204.) OIL METERS. STATUTES 1914 (4-5 GEO. V), P. XLVIII. ORDER OF MAY 22, 1913. By Order in Council of the 22nd of May, 1913, under the provisions of sections 52 and 53 of The Weights and Measures Act, chapter 52 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, pipe line automatic self-measuring oil meters were admitted to verification in Canada under certain regulations. (Vide Canada Gazette, Vol. xlvi, p. 4414.) ORDERS RESCINDED. NOTE: Orders in Council of March 11, 1910, March 11, 1911, August 12, 1911, October 16 1913, were all expressly rescinded by the following Order in Council of January 19, 1914. |