New-York tribune., 1920-01-22
Oil & @ Nh panies
Allowed TO Resume
Drilling i'm Mexico
Acting Ola Petition Of Forty
six Producers, Carrasaza
Grants Provisional Per-
nniis for Sinking of Wells

Nenustisano Carranza, President Of
Mexico, according 10 advices received
at the Offices OF the Mexican Petroleum
Company yesterday, has informed
forty SIX petitioning oil companies
that they may resume arilling opera
tions until the Mexican government
hIs finally acted upon Article 27 Of
the organic law of the Mexican Con-
stltution relating to the ownership of
the subsoil rights Of foreipn-owned
properties
The information that oil drilling
may be resumed was contained in y
resolution which President Carranza
gave to his Secretary cf Industry.
commerce and Labor on January II
The resolution follows:
ne petroleum companies having
manifested in an express manner thaf
they are disposed to comply with all Of
legal requirements provided they do
not imply the violation of their rights
previously acriircd;
Having manifested equally that
they are disposed to accept provisional
permits for drilling wells valid until
the Congress OF the Union issues the
organic law of the 9th constitutional
aitlcie, providing that the acceptance
or use OF SAID permits does not attack
or prejudice The rights Of the petro-
leum companies;
"Having manifested equally that
they viii not claim from the fact of
receiving the said permits to acouire
any new Tigat, nor that the Mexican
governrlent by the issuing OF said per
nuts abancons any right or principle
ohat II might wish to defend.
Ihe President of the Republic has
T. n
m'ts shall be conceded to the oil com-
paAles that may petition for the drill
ing OF wells upon the following. basis.
!, ne permits viii be valid only until
fhe Congress Of the Union jssues thr
crSan'c la" Of the constitutional
ArCicIe ~. Ihe permits that NAV be
granted IN the premises may cover ali
the wells that have been commenced
or He'd since the 1st of Nav. 1917.
a'So all the wells that may have been
,'nlshed' as we'll as those that now NAV
DC In IN the process Of drilling.
ne respective petitions for permits
10 dfIll which the petroleum companies
may present must contain the stute-
ment that the permits will not mean
the acquisition OF any new right nor
the cialm that the Mexican government
ny me 1act of issuing said permits
ahand"ns any right or legal principle
which it may wish to sustain.
he petitions will also contain an
agreement that the permits requested
will be valid only until the Congress
Ct the Union enacts the organic law
OF the constitutional Article u RELATING
to petroleum, when the interested d
parties must comply with the proyis-
ions of said law, or in the contrary
case the provisional permits will larse
! It IS understood not to have preiudiced
in any manner or in any sense the
different questions that are now beino
discussed before the judicial nower Of
the federation in the Amparo suits
nor the discussion before the Fedora
tribunals of general jurisdiction re.
latlng to the application of Article ~
and of the different legal DEGREES on
the subject Of petroleum issued bv the
executive power. Nor viii the dis
cuss'on OF the petroleum law now
pending before CONGRESS be nrejuiiced d
in any way"