Report of the Federal Trade Commission on Foreign Ownership in the Petroleum Industry: February 12, 1923 |
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Page 51 - That citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which, deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this Act.
Page 89 - On this day of , 19 , before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the said County and State, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.
Page 102 - Mesopotamian oilfields, •the British Government will place at the disposal of the French Government a share of 25 per cent. in such company. The price to be paid for such participation to be no more than that paid by any of the other participants to the said petroleum company.
Page 118 - ... thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter, and the same to have again...
Page 113 - ... the day of in every year, the first of such payments to be made on the day of next.
Page xx - The ownership of lands and waters comprised within the limits of the national territory is vested originally in the Nation, which has had, and has, the right to transmit title thereof to private persous, thereby constituting private property.
Page 102 - State. 5. All shares belonging to former enemy concessions which can be secured and all other advantages derived from these negotiations shall be divided, 50 per cent. to British interests and 50 per cent. to French interests. It is understood that in the company or companies to be formed to undertake the management and the exploitation of the said shares, concessions, and other advantages, the two countries shall have the same proportion of 50 per cent. in all capital subscribed, as well as in representatives...
Page 37 - An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain
Page 87 - Know all Men by these Presents: That we, the undersigned, a majority of whom are citizens and residents of the State of California, have this day voluntarily associated ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Cooperative Association under the Act of the Legislature of the State of California, approved March 27, 1895.
Page 77 - In witness whereof the parties hereto have caused these presents to be executed by their proper officers thereunto duly authorized and their corporate seals to be hereunto affixed, as of the day and year first above written.