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Show 88 COM~SSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I OIL AND GAS PIPE LJNES THROUGH INDIAN. LANDS. The following act of Congress, approved March 11,1904 (33 Stats., 65), authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way through Indian lands for pipe lines for the conveyance of oil and gas. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorbed and empowered to grant a right of way in the nature of an easement for the construction, operation, and nurin-tenance of pipe lines for the conveyance of oil and gas through any Indianreservation, through my lands held by an Indian tribe ornationin the Indian Temtory, through any lands reserved for an Indian agency or Indian echool, or for other purpose in connection with the Indian service. or through anv" lands which have been allotted in severalty to any individual Indian under any law or treaty, but which have not been conveyed to the allottee wnh full Dower of alienation.. uu- on the terms and con-ditions hekin expreeaed. No such lines shall he constructed across Indian landq as above mentioned, until authority therefor has first been obtained from, and the maps of definite location of said lines approved by, the Secretary of the Interior: Pnnided, That the construction of lateral lines from the &n pipe line establishing connection with oil and gas wells on the individual allotments of citizens may he constructed without securing authority from the Secretary of the Interior and with-out filing maps of definite location, when the consent of the allottees upon whose lands oil or gas wells may be located and of all other allottees through whose lands said lateral pine lines mav uam has been obtained hv the ~ioe-lineco muanv: AD videdfuvtha,- That in -.it^ is desired to run a pipe line u;der the line if sny rail-road, and eatiafactory arranwmeuts can not he made with the railroad comuanv. then the question shall be referred to the Secretary of the Interior, who shsli p& scribe the terms and conditions under which the pipe-line company shall he per-mitted to by its lines under said railroad. The compensation to be paid the tribes in their tribal eapaeity and the individual allottees for such right of way through their lands shall be determined in snch manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, and shall he subject to his final approval. And where such lines are not subject to State or Territorial taxation the company or owner of the line shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use and benefit of the Indians, such annual tax as he may designate, not exceeding five dollars for each ten miles of line so con-structed and maintained under B U C ~ru les and ~gulationaa s mid Secretary may prescribe. But nothing herein contained shall be so constmed as to exempt the owners of such lines from the payment of any tax that may be lawfully assessed against them by either State, Territorial, or municipal authority. And incorporated cities and towns into and through which snch pipe lines may he constructed shall have the power to regulate the manner of coostmction therein, and nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deny the right of municipal taxation in such towns and cities, and nothing herein shall authorize the use of such right of way excent for due line, and then onlv so far as mav be oecesoarv for its coostmction. mai&an&,-and i r e : Provided, $hat the rights herein shall not extend bevond a period of twent.y .ye ars: Provided fuvther. That the Secretary of the Interior. at the expiration of said twenty years, may extend the right to maintain any pipe line constructed under this act for another period not to exceed twenty years from tbe expiration of the first right, upon snch~termsa nd conditions aa he may deem proper. SBC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is expressly reserved. \ Prior to this enactment there was no authority of law for the grant-ing of permission for the construction and maintenance of oil and gas |