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                                                                    EXHIBIT 32.1

   CERTIFICATION OF VICE PRESIDENT OF TRUSTEE OF TREASURE ISLAND ROYALTY TRUST
             PURSUANT TO 15 U.S.C. SECTION 7241, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT
                TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Steven A. Finklea, certify that:

1.   I have reviewed the accompanying annual report on Form 10-K for the year
     ended December 31, 2007 of Treasure Island Royalty Trust, for which U.S.
     Bank National Association, acts as trustee;

2.   based on my knowledge, the 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
     the annual report;

3.   based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
     information included in the 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 the
     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 and internal control over
     financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
     15d-15(f)) to be established and maintained, for the registrant and I have:

     a)   designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
          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 the annual report is
          being prepared;

     b)   designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused
          such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under
          my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
          reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial
          statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted
          accounting principles;

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

     d)   disclosed in this report any change 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 that 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.

In giving the certifications in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, I have relied to the
extent I consider reasonable on information provided to me by Newfield
Exploration Company.


Date: March 31, 2008                    By: /s/ Steven A. Finklea
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                                            Steven A. Finklea
                                            Vice President
                                            U.S. Bank National Association