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Okla. Stat. tit. 61, § 61-313: Development for oil and gas purposes of certain state-

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owned lands in Oklahoma City authorized - Agreements.

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services is authorized

to provide for the development for oil and gas purposes of the

following described property:

All of the-state owned lands not now leased for oil and gas

mining purposes within a radius of five hundred (500) yards of a

point on the half-section line running north and south between the

northeast fourth and northwest fourth of Section twenty-seven (27),

Township Twelve (12) North, Range three (3) West of the Indian

Meridian, and the center of Twenty-second (22) Street in Oklahoma

City, Oklahoma, extended east from the right-of-way of the Atchison,

Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.

The development of such property shall be by means of a well, or

wells, located on adjacent state-owned lands. The Office of

Management and Enterprise Services is authorized to enter into an

agreement, or agreements, with the owner of the oil and gas lease,

or leases, on adjacent state-owned lands, consolidating said tract

with said adjacent state-owned lands or some part thereof for oil

and gas development, upon such terms and conditions, and for such

consideration as the Office of Management and Enterprise Services

may prescribe. There shall be reserved to the state a royalty of

not less than one fourth (1/4) of the oil and gas, or the proceeds

thereof, that may be produced from the property first described.

All development of the property first described for oil and gas

purposes shall be by means of a well, or wells, located on the

surface of said adjacent land but which may be directionally drilled

and bottomed on and underneath the property first described.

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