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SENATE JOURNAL. 99
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. All repurchases of
public free school and asylum lands
by forfeited land owners, under
Chapter 94, page 267, Acts of 1925,
and Chapter 25, page 43, Acts of
First Called Session of the Thirty-
Ninth Legislature of 1926, are here-
by in all things confirmed and val-
idated and when said lands shall
have been fully paid for, under the
provisions of said Acts, the same
shall be patented.
Sec. 2. Where the repurchase
contracts were made under the pro-
visions of Chapter 94, page 267, Acts
of the Thirty-Ninth Legislature, Reg-
ular Session, and the prior forfeited
sales were made under a mineral
reservation, the repurchase contracts
shall be deemed to have vested fee
title to said lands in said repurchas-
ing land owners including fifteen-
sixteenths of the oil and gas and
other minerals, reserving, however,
to the State and to the funds to
which said lands belonged one-six-
teenth of the oil and gas and other
minerals. Where the repurchase
contracts were made under the Act
last above mentioned, as amended
by Chapter 25, page 43, Acts of the
First Called Session of the Thirty-
Ninth Legislature, and the prior
forfeited sales were made under
mineral reservation, then said re-
purchase contracts shall be deemed
to have vested fee title to said lands
in said repurchasing land owners
including fifteen-sixteenths of the oil
and gas, reserving, however, to the
State and to the funds to which said
lands belonged one-sixteenth of the
oil and gas and all of the other
minerals. Where the repurchasing
land owner, whose repurchase con-
tract was made under either of the
Acts above mentioned, has hereto-
fore or may hereafter execute an
oil and gas lease on said lands, said
lease is hereby in all things vali-
dated and the lessee thereunder
shall pay to the State a free royalty
equal to one-sixteenth of the value
of the oil and gas that may be pro-
duced and saved from said land and
no further liability, obligation or
payment shall be due the State from
either the repurchasing land owner
or his lessees or assignees on ac-
count of the State's reservation of
a one-sixteenth interest in the oil
and gas; and where such leases havebeen heretofore executed and the
lessees thereunder have paid to the
State a free royalty equal to one-
sixteenth of the value of the oil and
gas produced and saved from said
lands, the payment of such royalty
shall be deemed to have fully satis-
fied all obligation due to the State
on account of its ownership of a
one-sixteenth of the oil and gas.
Such royalty payments shall be made
to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office at Austin, Texas, in the
manner and under the conditions
provided in Articles 5380, 5381 and
5382, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.
Sec. 3. Where the prior forfeited
sales were made without mineral
reservation, the repurchase contracts
made said Repurchase Acts hereto-
fore mentioned shall be deemed and
are hereby declared to the repur-
chases of the lands without mineral
reservation to the State or to the
funds to which said lands were ap-
propriated; and full fee title to said
lands including all of the oil and
gas and other minerals therein shall
be and are hereby vested in said
purchasers in all cases where the
prior forfeited sales were made with-
out mineral reservation.
Sec. 4. The fact that many oil
and gas leases have been executed by
land owners upon lands repurchased"
by them under the provisions of
Chapter 94, page 267, Acts of 1925,
and Chapter 25, page 43, Acts of
the First Called Session of the Thir-
ty-Ninth Legislature of 1926, and
that under said repurchase contracts
the State reserved a one-sixteenth
interest in the oil and gas and that
there is no statute requiring the
lessees thereunder to make royalty
payments to the State or how said
lessees should otherwise account to
the State creates an emergency and
an imperative public necessity that
the Constitutional rule requiring
bills to be read on three several days
in both Houses be suspended, and
such rule is hereby suspended, and
this Act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage,
and it is so enacted.
Committee Room,
Austin, Texas, Sept. 8, 1932.
Hon. Edgar E. Witt, President of the
Senate.
Sir: We, your Committee on Pub-
lic Lands and Land Office, to whom
was referred99
SENATE JOURNAL.
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