An Act to amend the act of Congress approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), as amended
PL 83-190 (H.R.1802), enacted 08/05/1953

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PUBUC LAW 190-AUG. 5, 1953 
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increased as follows: 10 per centum of the first $3,000 of each such 
salary rate; 8 per centum of so much of each such rate as is in excess 
of $3,000 up to and including $5,000, and 6 per centum of so much 
of each such rate as exceeds $5,000. 
(b) This section shall take effect on July 1,1953. 
Payscaie study. 
SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in 
cooperation with the Board of Education of the District of Columbia 
is hereby directed to make a study of the pay scales and classifications 
of the employees of such Board whose salaries are fixed and regulated 
by the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, for the 
purpose of determining what salary and classification adjustments 
Report. 
may be necessary or desirable, and to make a report to the respective 
chairmen of the Senate and House District Committees not later than 
January 4,1954. 
Approved August 5, 1953. 
Public Law 190 
CHAPTER 323 
August 5,1953 
^N ACT 
[H. R. 1802]— r^Q amend the Act of Congress approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), as 
amended. 
Alaska. 
Lands for edu-
cational uses. 
48 use 353. 
Oil and gas de-
posits, etc. 
Leases. 
30 use 22, 
et seq. 
181 
48 use 432-452. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemMed^ That the Act of 
Congress approved March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), being an Act to 
reserve lands of the Territory of Alaska for educational uses, and for 
other purposes, as amended by the Act approved March 5, 1952 (66 
Stat. 14), is hereby further amended by adding to the first section 
the following: 
"All deposits of oil, gas, oil shale, phosphate, sodium, and potassium 
in the reserved lands together with the lands containing such deposits 
shall be subject to disposition under the Mineral Leasing Act of Feb-
ruary 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), as amended, and all deposits of coal 
in the reserved lands together with the lands containing such deposits 
shall be subject to disposition under the Alaska Coal Leasing Act of 
October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741), as amended. 
Ninety per centum of 
the entire proceeds or income derived by the United States from any 
disposition of the minerals in the reserved lands under the mineral 
leasing laws, as herein provided, are hereby appropriated for payment 
to the Territorial treasury, where such sums shall be set apart as 
permanent funds, to be invested and the income expended for the 
same purposes and in the same manner as hereinbefore provided for. 
The other ten per centum of the entire proceeds or income shall be 
deposited in the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
"Any person qualified to hold an oil and gas lease who had first 
filed in point of time and had pending on January 15, 1953, an offer 
or application for an oil and gas lease for any lands subject to this 
Act, which lands on said date were within the limits of a unitized area 
created by unit agreement approved by the Secretary of the Interior, 
and which lands on the date the application for an oil and gas lease 
was filed were not situated within the known geologic structure of a 
producing oil and gas field, shall have a preference right over others 
to an oil and gas lease of such lands. 
"Upon the transfer to any future State erected out of the Territory 
of Alaska of title to any of the reserved lands, the provisions of this 
amendment shall cease to apply to the reserved lands title to which 
is so transferred. 
Any lease, permit, or contract made pursuant to 
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this amendment which is in effect at the time of any such transfer of 
title to the lands covered by the lease, permit, or contract shall not be 
terminated or otherwise affected by such transfer of title; but all 
right, title, and interest of the United States under such lease, permit, 
or contract, including any authority to modify its terms and condi-
tions that may have been retained by the United States, shall vest in 
the State to which title to the lands covered by the lease, permit, or 
contract is transferred. 
"The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make all 
necessary rules and regulations in harmony with the provisions and 
purposes of this Act for the purpose of carrying the same into effect, 
including such provisions as he may deem equitable to assure compen-
sation of surface lessees for damages to crops or improvements on, 
or impairment of the surface utilization of, the reserved lands by the 
holder of a mineral lease, or contract issued under this Act: Provided^ 
That such damages, if any, may be subject to judicial review." 
Approved August 5, 1963. 
Public Law 191 
CHAPTER 324 
AN ACT 
August 5.1953 
Granting the consent of Congress to the negotiation by the States of Nebraska, 
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Wyoming, and South Daljota of certain compacts with respect to the use of 
waters common to two or more of said States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernoled. That the consent of 
Nebraska, wyo-
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ming, and South 
(Jongress is hereby given— 
Dakota. 
(1) to the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota to 
negotiate a compact providing for an equitable division and 
apportionment among the said States of the waters of the 
Niobrara River and its tributaries; 
(2) to the States of Nebraska and South Dakota to negotiate 
a compact providing for an equitable division and apportionment 
between said States of the waters of Ponca Creek and its tribu-
taries; and 
(3) to the States of Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota 
or any two of them to negotiate a compact or compacts relating 
to the extraction and use of ground waters from sources common 
to the compacting States. 
No compact, the negotiation of which is authorized by this Act, shall 
be binding or obligatory upon any of the parties thereto unless the 
negotiations shall have been participated in by a suitable person or 
persons who shall be appointed by the President to represent the 
United States and shall make report to the Congress on the proceed-
ings and on the compact and until that compact shall have been rati-
fied by the legislatures of each of the States concerned and approved 
by the Congress. 
Nothing contained in any compact negotiated under 
this Act shall be construed as affecting the obligations of the United 
States of America to Indian tribes. The authority given by this Act 
shall, unless otherwise continued by the Congress, expire five years 
from the date of its approval. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
Water compacts. 
Expiration of 
authority. 
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