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Monday, Maroh 2, 1936.
The Honorable Board of County Commissioners met in the Commissioners' Room in the
County Court House at Port Townsend, Wa:h1ngton, on the above named date, at the hour
of 10 o'clook, A. M.
Present. Messrs. S. Lockhart, Chairman, Roy L. Nordby and J. R. Cousens.
Minutes of the February, 1936, Sessions, read and approved.
Mr. John Hunt again appeared before the Board in behalf of Bert Prestwood for a
Blind PensiQn, Qnd on Motion; duly seconded, it was ordered that the application of Bert
Prestwood for a Blind Pension be denied, on account of lack of funds.
On Motion, duly seoonded, monthly relief was granted to ~ws. Minnie Knopp, Port
Ludlow, in the sum of $5.00, and to Ivan Guptill in the sum of $10.00.
Warrants on the General Fund of Jefferson County, Dated May 7, 1897, Nos. 286
and 287, issued to David Falconer and Joseph Bartholomew, respectively, in the sum
of $16.20 each, were presented by Wm. Walker, Los Angeles, California, for payment,and
on Motion, duly Seconded, it was ordered that the claim be rejected, for the reason
that said Warrants were called for payment on April 15, 1924, and that more than seven
years have elapsed since they were called for payment, and were ordered cancelled on
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September 6; 1932.
On Motion, duly Seconded, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted:
Whereas Jefferson County has acquired at tax sale title to mineral rights and reser-
vations in and to the lands her~inafter described, and
Whereas, it is deemed to be for tha bast interests of Jefferson couu,ty, that said
mineral rights and reservations be leased in sufficient area to justify exploration and
development pursuant to the provisions of Rem. Rev. st. Secs. 11312-13-14, for cash,
paid by the hi~hest bidder at public auotion,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That the Treasurer of ,~efferson County be authorized
directed and ordered to l.ease at public auction for cash, to the highest bidder, the min-
eral rights and miperal reservations in and to the lands hereinafter described, the lease
to contain the following terms:
FIRST: The le&se shall r~maln 1n force and effect for a term of twenty years from
date of exeoution and as long thereafter as oil, gas or other lninerals are p~oduoed from
the land, or as long thereafter as lessee shall oond~~t drilling or re-working operations
therein with no oessation of more than sixty days until produotion results, so long ao
any such mineral 16 produc&d;
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S~COND: The lessee shall pay as royalty the equal ona eighth pert of the value of
all oil and/or gas removed from said lensed premises at the posted mnrket prioe in tho
d1etriot in whioh said premises are looated, or at the lessor's option to be deliverod
at tho wells cr to the crodit of the oounty as lessor, into pipe lines to whioh ol11d
wells may be ootlneotedJ and if ope!ations for drilling a well either on said leased prem-
ioos or in the vioinlty thereof i~ ~ownships 27 and 28 North Range 1 West and Township
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:7 ~;v~.:.~~, iiuul5<:l c; '''WtllSl; ISUl>J.J. not; 00 oommenoed w1tn-1rA sixty (60) days from the date of
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the exocut1on of eot1 lease said lanoe shall tormlncte as to both parties, unloeB on o~
before suoh date th~ lnsse& Shall payor tonder to tho leoeor or tho losBoro oredit at
tho of-U(l(l of. the Treneul'er of Jofforoon County Pox.t TOVI/nlltllcld, Wll,l!hington, the dum of
One Dollar an acre whlo~ shall extend .f.or tweln monthe, tho time within whioh suoh operA-
tlon6 Ahall be oommenoed. In like manner, upon J.lke tondor 0:1:' paymonts annUally, the
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