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 SIXTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 85. 1920. 443 secured by him from the lands embraced within his permit and sold or otherwise disposed of or held by him for sale or other disposition. . . . Sec. 16. That all permits and leases of lands containing oil or gas, Dnning '°""°°°“ made or issued under the provisions of this Act, shall be subject to the condition that no wells shall be drilled within two hundred feet of any of the outer boundaries of the lands so permitted or leased, unless the adjoining lands have been patented or the title thereto otherwise Pmmaouofmw vested in private owners, and to the f1n·ther condition that the per- ea. ’ mittee or lessee will, in conducting his explorations and minin operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or as 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 Fommm t Viol} injury of the oil deposits. Violations of the provisions of this section um. ° shall constitute groimds for the forfeiture 0 the permit or lease, to be enforced through appropriate proceedings in courts of competent jurisdiction. _ _ “Lew, 0, ,,,,,,,,,,m Sec. 17. That all unappropriated dejposits of oil or gas situated glisggvdn deposits _ in within the known geologic structure 0 a producing oil or gas field sexes. p" “°mg and the unentered ands containing the same, not subject to preferential lease, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior to the Competitive b,d_ highest responsible bidder by competitive biddingh under general dmaregulations to qualified applicants in areas not excee `ng six hundred Mmmm . and fort acres and in tracts which shall not exceed in length two and one-half times their width, such leases to be conditioned upon the Pament 0, ,,0,,,,,,, payment by the lessee of such bonus as may be accepted and of such f¤v¤1¤¤¤»¤¤d remiroyalty as may be fixed in the lease, which shall not be less than 12§ per centum in amount or value of the production, and the payment in advance of a rental of not less than $1 per acre per annum thereafter during the continuance of the lease, the rental paid for any one ear to be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year. perm of mm, ,0, {eases shall be for a period of twenty years, with the preferential ¤°“’°'¤· right in the lessee to renew the same for successive periods of ten years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless otherwise provided by law at the R,dmm°,,°ya,,y time of the expiration of such periods. Whenever the avera e daily r¤r¤m¤1¤p:¤¤¤¤uo¤. roduction of anly Oll well sha not exceed ten barrels r <§ay, the Secretary of the nterior is authorized to reduce the ro afi; on uture production when in his judgment the wells can not be successfully Applicable to an operated upon the royalty fixed in the lease. The provisions of this ‘°“°°* paragraph shall apply to all oil and gas leases made under this Act. wienamwnenergts Sec. 18. That upon relinquishment to the United States, filed m '°“,§;m onmmdcr the General Land ihce within SIX months after the approval of this ¤frigbt·s,btc.,byc!a§m- Act, of all right, title,_and mtorest claimed and possessed prior to T§$Zh,'¥{§1§§,,0’§'i,*§{§§ July 3, 1910, and continuously since by the claimant or his prede- “’°“¤· cessor in interest under the  placer   law to any oil or gas bearingkland upon w ch there has been ed one or more oil or gas we to discovery embraced in the Executive order of withdrawal issued September 27, 1909, and not within any naval d1;3m¤¤¢ mnempetroleum reserve, an upon payment as royalty to the United States " ‘ of an amount equal to the value at the time of production of one-eighth of allgthe oil or gas alreadly produced except oil or gas used for production purposes on the c aim, or imavoidably lost, from such land, _the claimant, or his successor, if in possession of such land, undisputed by ang other claimant prior to July 1, 1919, shall be entitled ygeriod or ieee; my. to a lease thereon from the lnited States for a period of twenty °‘ y‘ years, ag a rjpyalty of riot less tha1i11f2% per (pentium of all the oiltpr P V as ro uce except Ol or as use or ro uction ur es on 6 ’°"·*°· §lai§, or unavoidably lost;gProvided, T1i)at not mor}; th; one-half ¤1Ei.mjt€d m om of the area, but in no case to exceed three thousand two hundred acres, within the lgeolovic oil or gas structure of a producing o1l or gas field shall be eased) to any one claimant under the provision of