Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co.

By the Enabling Act Congress required as a condition precedent to the admission of Oklahoma into the Union that her constitution should make provision for common schools; and for their benefit it granted certain lands to the State with the proviso that those valuable for min*398erais, gas and' oil should not be sold prior to January 1, 1915, but might be leased. Act of June 16, 1906, 34 Stat. 267; 270, 272, 273. The State Constitution established a common school system and pledged her faith to preserve the lands so conveyed by the United States as a sacred trust, “and to keep the same for the…