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TITLE 30 — MINERAL LANDS AND MINING>
CHAPTER 3 — LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE>
SUBCHAPTER III — PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS> § 104. — Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund.
§ 104. — Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC104]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS,
SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER III--PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER
MINING LAWS
Sec. 104. Agreements with applicants for patents as to
disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending
determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund
Where applications for patents have been or may be offered for any
oil or gas land included in an order of withdrawal upon which oil or gas
had been discovered, or was being produced prior to March 2, 1911, or
upon which drilling operations were in actual progress on October 3,
1910, and oil or gas is thereafter discovered thereon, and where there
has been no final determination by the Secretary of the Interior upon
such applications for patent, said Secretary, in his discretion, may
enter into agreements, under such conditions as he may prescribe with
such applicants for patents in possession of such land or any portions
thereof, relative to the disposition of the oil or gas produced
therefrom or the proceeds thereof, pending final determination of the
title thereto by the Secretary of the Interior, or such other
disposition of the same as may be authorized by law. Any money which may
accrue to the United States under the provisions of sections 103 and 104
of this title from lands within the Naval Petroleum Reserves shall be
set aside for the needs of the Navy and deposited in the Treasury to the
credit of a fund to be known as the Navy Petroleum Fund, which fund
shall be applied to the needs of the Navy as Congress may from time to
time direct, by appropriation or otherwise.
(Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 201, Sec. 2, as added Aug. 25, 1914, ch. 287, 38
Stat. 708.)
