White House Press Release, Executive Order Number 9632

262 #285 IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 28, 1945 EXECUTIVE ORDER #9632 TRANSFER OF JURIBDICTION FROM THE MAR DEPARTMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OVER THE INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES IN CERTAIN MINERAL DEPOSTTS 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 rocorded in Con- veyance 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 thenco through Sections 7, 18, 19, 20, 29, 32 and 33, Towmship 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 NARA said four hundrod (400) foot strip prepared by, the United States Engincer'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 sub- ject 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 con- sidered 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 minoral 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 horeby transforred from the War Department to the Department of the Interior. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall tako such action as may be necessary to protect the United States from loss on account of drainago or threatened drainage of the oil and gas deposits in the said Dupre Strip. (OVER)