SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 85. 1920. 447 SOD[U·M_ Sodium deposits. Sec. 23. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized 8,f;Q$£°$¤¤ ¥’°’m"*’ and directed, under such rules and regulations as he ma prescribe, to ` grant to any qualified applicant a pros ecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chliorides, sul hates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium dissolved) in and soluble in water, and accumulated by concentration, in lands belo to the United States for a period of not exceeding two ears: rliwmlded, i_’¥'Z,§°‘{§’°,,;;t.,d, That the area to be included in such a. permit shall be not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixti acres of land in reasonably com- L ds I ded pact form: Provided further, That the revisions of this section shall °° °x° “ ' not apply to lands in San Bernardino County, California. LMS t Wmmmm Sec. 24. That upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of euemh °¤: area m the Interior that valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated “"”°" °’S°°'“’“”“*°· in section 23 hereof has been discovered bi the permittee within the area covered by his permit and that suc lan is chieili valuable therefor the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for one- alf of the Royalty land embraced in the prospecting permit, at a royalty of not less than ` one·eighth of the amount or value of the production, to be taken and described by legal subdivisions of the pu lic-land survelys, or the land be not surve ed by survey executed at the cost of the pemnttee in accordance with the rules and regulations to be prescmbed by the Secrets.? of the Interior. The permittee shall also have the prefer- ,°,,,"Qf‘{,?f,°}°‘§°,$,,§,‘§,d'f°S° ence rig t to lease the remainder of the lands embraced with1n the limits of his ermit at a royalty of not less than one-eighth of the amount or valine of the production to be fixed by the Secretary of the _ _ Interior. Lands known to contain such valuable deposits as are k,}{,‘$,’§* §§;,§,“;;”§,§‘,§ enumerated in section 23 hereof and not covered by permits or leases, Jsggdggggé except such lands as are situated in said county of San Bernardino, ' shallpbe 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 Royamm mmm sixty acres; all leases to be conditioned upon the a ent by the ae ’ ' lessee of such royalty of not less than one-eighth oi) this amount or value of the production as may be fixed in theilease, and the payment in advance o a rental of 50 cents per acre for the first calendar year or fraction thereof and $1iper acre per annum thereafter during the continuance of the lease, the rental plaid for any one year to be credited on the royalty for that year. eases may be for indeterminate ,,,f,°;'§,°$,,§g‘} °°“‘“` periods, subject to readjustment at the end of each twenty-year period, upon such conditions not inconsistent herewith as may be incorporated in each lease or prescribed in general reglulation theretofore issued by the Secretary of the Interior, inclu ing covenants relative to mining methods, waste, period of pre develop~ ment, and minimum production, and a lessee under t section megy be lessee of the remaining lands in his permit. _ USG 0, umupied nc. 25. That in addition to areas of such mineral land which may ima xm- development be included in any such prospecting permits or leases, the Secretary "°“‘* °*°‘ of the Interior, in his discretion, may grant to a permittee or lessee of lands containing sodium deposits, an subject to the payment of an mm annual rental of not less than 25 cents er acre, the exc usive right to use, during the life of the permit or lease, a tract of unoccupied nonmineral public land, not exceeding forty acres in area, for camp sites, refining works and other p oses connected with and necessary to the proper development aliid) use of the deposits covered by the permit or lease.
