Download or read book Hearings Held Before the Committee on the Public Lands of the House of Representatives written by U. S. Committee on Public Lands and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hearings Held Before the Committee on the Public Lands of the House of Representatives: January 21, 1911, on H. R. 31437, to Protect the Locators in Good Faith of Oil and Gas Lands Who Shall Have Effected an Actual Discovery of Oil or Gas on the Public Lands of the United States, or Their Successors in Interest The chairman. And your knowledge of the oil situation leads you to believe that in a great majority of cases these transfers have also been made in advance of the actual discovery of oil, but that it is impossible to determine that fact by looking at the papers in the actual cases, because the department has never raised that question, whether the discovery was made by or on behalf of the original locators or by or on behalf of their transferees. That question was never raised in the department until the Yard case. Mr. Andrews. That is the situation, but in addition to that it is my understanding that in a large majority of cases the record will Show the date of the discovery. Mr. Pierce. It possibly might ill some cases, but it is a matter of fact that it was not necessar to inquire into. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.