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KIRKPATRICK v. COMMISSIONER, DEPT. OF NAT. RESOURCES

No. 388.

391 P.2d 7 (1964)

Application of M. B. KIRKPATRICK and Union Oil Company of California for an Extension of Oil and Gas Lease ADL-00482, Appellants, and Standard Oil Company of California, Intervener, v. COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, and State of Alaska, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 8, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. A. Burr, Burr, Boney & Pease, Anchorage, for appellants.

Robert C. Erwin, Dist. Atty., and Richard L. McVeigh, Asst. Dist. Atty., Anchorage, for appellees.

Eugene F. Wiles, Plummer, Delaney & Wiles, Anchorage, for intervener.

Before NESBETT, C.J., and DIMOND and AREND, JJ.

DIMOND, Justice.

This case deals with the effect of the Alaska Statehood Act and statutes enacted by the Alaska State Legislature, on oil and gas leases of Alaska lands issued by the United States Department of the Interior while Alaska was a Territory of the United States.

Prior to statehood, federal law provided that sections 16 and 36 of each township in the Territory of Alaska were reserved from sale or settlement for the support

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