Executive Order 9632—Transfer of Jurisdiction from the War Department to the Department of the Interior Over the Interest of the United States in Certain Mineral Deposits in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

WHEREAS an agreement was entered into on February 14, 1941, by and between the United States of America and the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana (which agreement is recorded in Conveyance Book 168, folio 663, and in Mortgage Book 113, folio 131, of the Records of the Parish of Jefferson), as to the nature and extent of certain grants made by the aforesaid Parish to the United States with respect to the Dupre Strip or Cut, described as follows:

A certain strip of land extending from Bayou Dupont to Bayou Cutler, measuring four hundred (400) feet in width, starting in Section 36 Township 16 South, Range 23 East, and running in a Southeasterly direction through Sections 1 and 12 of Township 17 South, Range 23 East, and thence through Sections 7, 18, 19, 20, 29, 32, and 33, Township 17 South, Range 24 East, and thence through Section 4 Township 18 South, Range 24 East, and being commonly known as and hereinafter sometimes referred to as the Dupre Strip or Cut, all being located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, as indicated on a map of said four hundred (400) foot strip prepared by the United States Engineer's Office, dated New Orleans, Louisiana, July, 1919;

WHEREAS under the terms of the above agreement the United States is entitled to receive payment of royalties in an amount equal to three thirty-seconds (3/32) of all minerals produced and saved from the said Dupre Strip;

WHEREAS there are a number of productive zones beneath the said Dupre Strip the oil and gas deposits of which are subject to drainage by wells on adjacent lands in private ownership;

WHEREAS it is necessary in the public interest that such protective action be taken as will prevent loss to the United States by reason of such drainage or threatened drainage; and

WHEREAS, in order to facilitate such action, it is considered advisable to transfer jurisdiction from the War Department to the Department of the Interior over the interest of the United States of America in the mineral deposits in the said Dupre Strip:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

1. The jurisdiction over the interest of the United States of America in the mineral deposits in the Dupre Strip, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, is hereby transferred from the War Department to the Department of the Interior.

2. The Secretary of the Interior shall take such action as may be necessary to protect the United States from loss on account of drainage or threatened drainage of the oil and gas deposits in the said Dupre Strip.

3. The jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior over the mineral deposits in the said Dupre Strip shall be subject to the primary jurisdiction of the War Department over the lands in connection with its program for the improvement of rivers and harbors.

4. All moneys received by the United States as royalties or otherwise on account of minerals extracted from the Dupre Strip shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and credited to miscellaneous receipts.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 28, 1945