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PUBLIC LAW 190-AUG. 5, 1953

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increased as follows: 10 per centum of the first $3,000 of each such salary rate; 8 per centum of so much of each such rate as is in excess of $3,000 up to and including $5,000, and 6 per centum of so much of each such rate as exceeds $5,000. (b) This section shall take effect on July 1, 1953. Payscaie study. SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in cooperation with the Board of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby directed to make a study of the pay scales and classifications of the employees of such Board whose salaries are fixed and regulated by the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, for the purpose of determining what salary and classification adjustments Report. may be necessary or desirable, and to make a report to the respective chairmen of the Senate and House District Committees not later than January 4, 1954. Approved August 5, 1953. Public Law 190

CHAPTER 323

August 5, 1953 ^N ACT [H. R. 1802]— r^Q amend the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), as amended. Alaska. Lands for educational uses.

48 USC 353. Oil and gas deposits, etc. Leases. 30 USC 22, 181 et seq.

48 USC 432-452.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemMed^ That the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), being an Act to reserve lands of the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for other purposes, as amended by the Act approved March 5, 1952 (66 Stat. 14), is hereby further amended by adding to the first section the following: "All deposits of oil, gas, oil shale, phosphate, sodium, and potassium in the reserved lands together with the lands containing such deposits shall be subject to disposition under the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), as amended, and all deposits of coal in the reserved lands together with the lands containing such deposits shall be subject to disposition under the Alaska Coal Leasing Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741), as amended. Ninety per centum of the entire proceeds or income derived by the United States from any disposition of the minerals in the reserved lands under the mineral leasing laws, as herein provided, are hereby appropriated for payment to the Territorial treasury, where such sums shall be set apart as permanent funds, to be invested and the income expended for the same purposes and in the same manner as hereinbefore provided for. The other ten per centum of the entire proceeds or income shall be deposited in the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. "Any person qualified to hold an oil and gas lease who had first filed in point of time and had pending on January 15, 1953, an offer or application for an oil and gas lease for any lands subject to this Act, which lands on said date were within the limits of a unitized area created by unit agreement approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and which lands on the date the application for an oil and gas lease was filed were not situated within the known geologic structure of a producing oil and gas field, shall have a preference right over others to an oil and gas lease of such lands. "Upon the transfer to any future State erected out of the Territory of Alaska of title to any of the reserved lands, the provisions of this amendment shall cease to apply to the reserved lands title to which is so transferred. Any lease, permit, or contract made pursuant to

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