Volume 32
Public Law 57–548
Defining what shall constitute and providing for assessments on oil mining claims.
Approved February 12, 1903
Statutory text
An Act
Defining what shall constitute and providing for assessments on oil mining claims.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That where oil lands are
Public lands.
Assessments required for oil mining claims.
R. S., secs. 2829–2333, p. 128.
located under the provisions of title thirty-two, chapter six. Revised Statutes of the United States, as placer mining chums, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding live claims in all: Provided, That said
Proviso.
Labor to show character of contiguous claims.
labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.
Approved, February 12, 1903.