To Purchase Coal and Asphalt Lands from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians: Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1859, a Bill to Authorize the Purchase of Certain Interests in Lands and Mineral Deposits by the United States from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians. July 7 and 8, 1943

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Page 4 - States the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within such lease under existing law or laws hereafter enacted, in so far as said surface is not necessary for use of the lessee...
Page 32 - The general provisions of sections 1, 27, 29 to 34, inclusIve, 37 and 38 of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), as amended...
Page 7 - WHEREAS, there is now pending before the Congress of the United States a bill to...
Page 31 - An act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes...
Page 32 - Leases 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 time of the expiration of such periods.
Page 44 - ... will find in the commercial service, and if there were some 'method by which it could be dealt with finally by delegation of authority from Congress in a commission or something of that kind, I think we could then get along more expeditiously and far more economically. Mr. MOORE. If you will allow me, there is just one other question that I would like to ask, which perhaps you may feel a little delicacy in answering. In creating this commission, it has seemed to me desirable that your department...
Page 49 - ... possession of their lands, sometimes by force, leaving them an uneducated, helpless and dependent people, needing protection against the selfishness of others and their own improvidence. Of necessity, the United States assumed the duty of furnishing that protection, and with it the authority to do all that was required to perform that obligation and to prepare the Indians to take their place as independent, qualified members of the modern body politic.
Page 39 - ... $1 per acre for each and every year thereafter during the continuance of the lease, except that such rental for any year shall be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year. Leases shall be for indeterminate...
Page 39 - Bernardino, shall be held subject to lease, and may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt, and in such areas as he shall fix, not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres ; all leases to be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty...
Page 28 - ... may be made at any time after the expiration of six months from the final ratification of this agreement, without awaiting the expiration of the period of two years, as hereinbefore provided.

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