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                                                                      EXHIBIT 31

                                 CERTIFICATIONS

I, Ron Hooper, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Sabine Royalty Trust, for
which Bank of America, N.A. acts as Trustee;

2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual
report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, distributable income and changes in trust
corpus of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual
report;

4. I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)), or for
causing such controls and procedures to be established and maintained, for the
registrant and I have:

         a)       designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused
                  such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under
                  my supervision, to ensure that material information relating
                  to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is
                  made known to me by others within those entities, particularly
                  during the period in which this annual report is being
                  prepared;

         b)       evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
                  controls and procedures and presented in this annual report my
                  conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
                  and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this
                  annual report based on such evaluation; and

         c)       disclosed in this annual report any changes in the
                  registrant's internal control over financial reporting that
                  occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter
                  (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an
                  annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably
                  likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control
                  over financial reporting; and

5. I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors:

         a)       all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
                  design or operation of internal control over financial
                  reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
                  registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report
                  financial information; and

         b)       any fraud, whether or not material, that involves persons who
                  have a significant role in the registrant's internal control
                  over financial reporting.


Date: March 10, 2004                         By: /s/ Ron Hooper
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                                                 Ron Hooper
                                                 Senior Vice President and
                                                 Trust Administrator
                                                 Bank of America, N.A.