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The Young Entrepre-neurs Academy will begin in Lincoln Parish in November.

The program is designed for students in grades six-12 who have demonstrated creativity, academic effort, determina-tion, enthusiasm, innovative ideas, the ability to communicate and a commitment to their fam-ily and community.

“Students enrolled in the YEA program will be brain-storming business ideas, writing business plans, pitching those to investors, obtaining actual funding and launching their own real business or social move-ment,” Pam Jones, YEA pro-gram director, said. “By the time the students graduate from the academy, they’re going to be the CEO of their own real, legally-registered enterprise that will start generating profit and pro-vide a social service.”

Judy Copeland, presi-dent of the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, brought the program to Lincoln Parish.

One hundred percent of the students that go through the program graduate high school on time and 99 per-cent of graduates enroll in college and stay in the community. Forty-nine per-cent of YEA students are female and 56 percent are underrepresented minori-ties. Nineteen percent go on start a second business, Copeland said.

“I think that’s a won-derful thing for our com-munity,” she said. “We’re teaching them and they’re

giving back to our commu-nity and they are already exposed to the business life and business people just through this program

alone. It’s going to take them a long way in life.”

Jones said the Y E A p r o g r a m started 10 years ago in Rochester, New York. It now has 112 locations in 38 states. There are only three

locations in Louisiana — New Orleans, Lake Charles and now Ruston.

“This program takes middle and high school kids through the process of start-ing their own real business or social movement over the course of an academic year,” Jones said. “I’m ex-cited about it because I feel like I’m going to be learning as well by working with these kids.”

The program will be-gin in November and run through May 2016. Only 24 students can be accepted into the program. Applica-tions can be picked up at the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce or can be found online at www.rustonlin-coln.org/pages/YEA. The deadline to apply is Sept. 14. There will be a one-time tuition cost of $295. Scholar-ships are available and will be awarded on the basis of need and merit.

The Lincoln Parish YEA program is also in need of sponsors, business mentors, guest speakers, partici-pants, investor panelists, field trip hosts and fund-raiser hosts.

For additional informa-tion on the YEA program, visit online at www.ruston-lincoln.org/pages/YEA or call 255-2031.

By Nancy [email protected]

Two Lincoln Parish legisla-tors want area youth to know that excellence can come from their own hometowns.

Rep. Patrick Jefferson, D-Homer, and Rep. Rick Gal-lot, D-Ruston, are launching their Champions Tour series Monday at 6 p.m. at the Fred C. Hobdy Assembly Center on the Grambling State University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

NBA All-Star Paul Millsap, who graduated from Gram-bling High School and played

at Louisiana Tech University, is the featured speaker. Mill-sap now plays for the Atlanta Hawks.

The Champions Tour is de-signed to inspire and motivate our youth, Jefferson said.

The series will feature ath-letes, entertainers and other professionals who grew up in the area and have achieved noted status in their fields, Jefferson said.

“All too often our youth look to athletes or entertain-ers from afar and yet we are fortunate and favored to have many who excelled in their professions who are home-grown,” Jefferson said.

Jefferson’s district in-cludes the southwest portion of Lincoln Parish, along with all of Claiborne Parish and part of Bienville Parish.

Jefferson said he’s reached out to youth organizations in both his and Gallot’s districts. The two lawmakers want to “ensure that our kids have a launching pad” of good local role models, Jefferson said.

“We just want to inspire kids. If you’re inspired and motivated, even when they say you can’t, you can,” Jef-ferson said.

The next in the Champions Tour series is expected to be in early 2016.

By Nancy [email protected]

Ruston’s commercial util-ity customers will pay more for water and electricity beginning this month, but the increase isn’t coming at the hand of the city.

The 1 percent state sales tax is the result of the Legis-lature’s decision to roll back

a number of business tax breaks in order to balance Louisiana’s budget.

The temporary suspen-sion of the exemption on commercial use of steam, water, electric power and natural gas is among the rollbacks. The suspension remains in effect until Aug. 5, 2016.

The re-imposed sales tax

became effective July 1 and will appear on bills that go out Monday, Barbara Watts, city water and light office customer service manager, said.

“They’ll think it’s some-thing the city is doing, but it isn’t,” Watts said. “It’s the state.”

City officials say they were unaware of the sus-

pension until June 29, the day they received an email bulletin from Louisiana’s Department of Revenue.

“We were caught behind the eight ball on this be-cause we didn’t know it was happening,” Mayor Ronny Walker said.

Ruston has 1,478 business customers to which it sup-plies water and electricity.

The city does not supply natural gas.

The timing of tax re-im-position and the city utility billing cycles left officials pondering how best to handle the situation without having to hand calculate every bill. Some bills reflecting partial July usage had already gone out.

So, officials decided to

add the state tax first to the printed bills that go out Monday.

“That way we can catch everybody that’s only in the July,” Kourtney Keim, the communications director, said.

Statements for business customers in early cycles

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‘Snakeman’ says most snakes are harmlessTerry “Snakeman” Vandeventer taught children about the different species of snakes in Louisi-

ana at the Lincoln Parish Library on Wednesday. Vandeventer, of Jackson, Mississippi, said he was “spreading the good word about snakes.” Of all the snakes in the world, he said only 14 percent are dangerous. While practicing caution and safety around snakes is important, Vandeventer said most snakes are harmless.

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Jefferson, Gallot launch Champions TourPaul Millsap to inspire, motivate youth

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former Louisiana Tech University player will be the first featured speaker during the Champions Tour series set to begin Monday.

Voters league hold meeting

The Union Voters League will hold its 31st Annual Banquet at 7 p.m. July 23 at the Willie Davis Recreation Center in Farmerville.

The speaker will be John Belton, district attor-ney for Lincoln and Union Parish.

Individual tickets cost $25. The cost for a table of eight is $200.

Those interested in purchasing tickets can contact Lennie Smith at 778- 4409.

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BATON ROUGE (AP) — The health insurance program for Louisiana state employees, retirees and some public school systems is taking applications for coverage for same-sex spouses and their dependents.

The Office of Group Ben-efits says those who were mar-ried before June 26 have until

Aug. 11 to apply. Those married on or after June 26 have 30 days after the marriage to apply for coverage.

June 26 is the date that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that marriage is a fundamental right for all Americans.

The Office of Group Ben-efits opened the enrollment

period July 10. The Retired State Employees Association sent a notice about the enroll-ment period Tuesday.

Applications must be faxed or postmarked by Aug. 11. Coverage for newly enrolled dependents will begin on Aug. 1 for couples married before June 26.

BATON ROUGE (AP) — With the beginning of a new school year quickly approaching, state health regulators are urging par-ents to make sure their children have received all required vaccinations.

State officials say Loui-siana law requires chil-dren, ages 4 or older and entering kindergarten, pre-kindergarten or Head

Start programs, to have proof of receiving the fol-lowing vaccinations:

• Booster dose of polio-virus vaccine

• Two doses of measles, mumps and rubella vac-cine

• Three doses of hepati-tis vaccine

• Two doses of varicella (chicken pox) vaccine

• Booster dose of diph-

theria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine.

Children in daycare also need to be up-to-date with their age-appropriate immunizations. Children 11 or older and entering the sixth grade must have proof they received all the age-appropriate im-munizations listed above, as well as vaccinations for meningitis and Tdap.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The searing political con-flict over abortion flared anew Wednesday as three Republican-led congressio-nal committees said they will investigate whether Planned Parenthood is selling organs from aborted fetuses.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, criticized the group and said President Barack Obama should con-demn and end the practice. Other GOP lawmakers and 2016 presidential hopefuls

joined in, including some who said Congress should end federal aid to the orga-nization.

The GOP offensive came a day after an anti-abortion group circulated a video it made secretly showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the disposal of body parts from aborted fetuses.

"When an organization monetizes an unborn child — and with the cavalier attitude portrayed in this

horrific video — we must all act," Boehner said in a brief written statement. He said Obama and Health and Human Services Secre-tary Sylvia Burwell should "denounce, and stop, these gruesome practices."

Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions and other reproductive health services, says it legally helps women who want to make not-for-profit donations of their fetus' organs for scien-tific research. It says it makes

no money by donating the organs to science, and says the video was heavily edited.

"These outrageous claims are flat-out untrue, but that

doesn't matter to politicians with a longstanding politi-cal agenda to ban abortion and defund Planned Parent-hood," Planned Parenthood

spokesman Eric Ferrero said Wednesday. He said women donating fetal tissue for re-search "should be honored, not attacked and demeaned."

Congressional panels will probe Planned Parenthood video

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Continued from page 1Awill be reviewed to deter-mine if those customers owe for any July days. If they do, that balance will show up as a miscellaneous charge on their August bill, Keim said.

Though public schools and governmental entities are exempt from the tax, they will have to provide the city with an exemption letter. Until those letters are on file, the entities will be charged, Keim said.

Walker said the tax would not only impact ex-isting businesses, but also

could affect Ruston’s ability to lure new businesses.

“It really puts us at some-what of a disadvantage as far as recruiting new com-panies,” he said.

Officials are backtrack-ing to notify industrial prospects that the exemp-tion no longer exists, the mayor said.

Rep. Rob Shadoin, R-Ruston, voted for lifting the exemption. He said he sees the suspension as a way to prevent further higher edu-cation budget cuts and not as something detrimental

to business.Without the tax rollback

package, health care and higher education would have borne the brunt of cuts necessary to balance the state’s budget, Shadoin said.

Suspending the sales tax exemption is expected to generate about $107 million statewide.

“This is one of those mechanisms (lawmakers) thought we could do without hurting anybody too much,” Shadoin said. “I haven’t had any pushback on what we did.”

Walker: Tax could affect city’s ability to lure new businesses

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Clay and Teresa Carroll, of Jonesboro, are proud to announce the engagement of their wdaugh-ter Elizabeth Louise Carroll to Brandon Lee Joynor,, also of Jonesboro.

Joynor is the son of Gary and Sandy Joynor, of Jonesboro. He is the grandson of Joey and Pat Bignar, of Jonesboro, and E.L. and

Betty Joynor, of Vernon.The bride-elect is the grand-

daughter of Bobby and Beth Culpepper, of Jonesboro, Louise Carroll, of Jonesboro and the late Dennis R. Carroll. She is a 2011 graduate of Cedar Creek School and a 2015 accounting graduate of the University of Mississippi. She is currently pursuing a mas-

ters degree in accounting at the University of Mississippi.

Joyner is a 2011 graduate of Quitman High School and a 2014 graduate of Delta Community Col-lege. He is currently employed by Gladiator Energy Services.

The couple plans to wed at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 1 at First Baptist Church in Jonesboro.

C o n n i e a n d J o h n LeJeune, of Iowa, are ex-cited to announce the en-gagement of their daugh-ter Angelina Marie Fagan to Robert Fields Shadoin, son of Robert E. and Carol Shadoin, of Ruston, and Denise Jones Smith, also of Ruston. Angelina is also the daughter of the late Tony Fagan, of Bassfield, Mississippi.

The couple will ex-change vows Oct. 10 at their church, Broadmoor United Methodist in Baton Rouge.

The bride-elect is the proud granddaughter of the late Herbert Angelo and Carolyn Angelo, of

Moss Bluff, the late Ida Angelo, of Sulphur, and the late Edmond and Hattie Fagan, of Bassfield, Mis-sissippi. She is a graduate of Westlake High School and Northwestern State University.

The groom-elect is the honored grandson of the late Robert F. Shadoin and May Shadoin, of Ruston, Kathleen Jones and the late James Jones, of Rus-ton, and Jim Boyd and the late Billie Jean Boyd, of Shreveport. He attended Ruston High School and Louisiana State University. He is employed by J.P. Mor-gan Chase.

Fagan, Shadoin plan wedding

Submitted photoElizabeth Louise Carroll and Brandon Lee Joynor.

Couple to marry in October ceremony

Submitted photoAngelina Marie Fagan and Robert Fields Shadoin

Carroll, Joynor proudlyannounce engagement

Art show set for July 24, 25

Artists currently or for-merly living in Union Parish are invited to participate in the Union Arts Council’s second annual Art Show set for July 24 and 25 as part of the Loui-siana Watermelon Festival in Farmerville. Artists may enter up to three artworks in any media, including paintings, photography, folk art and sculp-ture, with no entry fees. Visitors will vote to select the “People’s Choice” winner. Bring entries in between 1-3 p.m. July 24 to the courthouse. Call Bob Ward at 791-8038 for more details.

Speaker at NAMI meeting

Tiffany Bates, assistant professor in the department of psychology and behavioral sciences at Louisiana Tech University, will speak at the up-

coming educational seminar of the Ruston Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. This seminar will be held fro 10:30 a.m. to noon July 25 in the Lincoln Community Room at Lincoln Parish Li-brary on 910 North Trenton St. Bates will speak on “Un-derstanding Mental Illnesses,” types of brain disorders.

The meeting is free, and all interested people are invited. A special invitation goes to local church congregations; persons living with a mental illness, their families and friends; veterans, their families and friends; teachers; mental health and other professionals; community leaders and other citizens. Light refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the seminar.

For more information, call Jerrilene Washington, NAMI Ruston chapter president, at 247-3982. Bates is also the NAMI Ruston chapter vice-president.

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Lincoln Parish Police Jury Finance Committee members have the best interest of area residents at heart.

During a Tuesday night committee meeting, it was brought to the atten-tion of the jurors that the Humanitar-ian Enterprises of Lincoln Parish’s transportation system is having some budgetary issues.

These issues were not due to a lack of planning; if anything Director Rosalind Jones was trying to make everything work without coming to the committee.

In the meeting, Jones said the rea-son for the budget issue was the loss of a state grant that accounted for more than $100,000, which would then have been matched by the Louisiana Department of Transportation.

“That was two years ago,” she said. “We’ve been able to sustain ourselves until now.”

Jones said the program is one that is very needed in the community.

“We take people to work, children to daycare, people to doctor appoint-ments,” she said. “This is a very nec-essary program.”

The committee voted 3-2 to give the transportation program $65,000, which would bring them up-to-date on their bills. The two dissenting votes wanted the program to receive an ad-ditional $10,000 as a cushion.

Jones said payments are expected to continue to come in to allow the program to have some cushion.

This one-time infusion of cash into the transportation program was es-sential for the program to continue its operations.

Lincoln Parish Public Transpor-tation System has been providing transportation to residents of Lincoln Parish since 1981 and it is the only public transit system in the parish that is handicap accessible and open to the general public.

Running 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, all residents are able to use the system for a fee of $4 one-way.

In 2014, the LPPTS took more than 10,000 area residents to various loca-tions throughout the parish.

By issuing the infusion of cash, the LPPJ Finance Committee has guaran-teed that area residents will continue to have these services for another year.

Jones said she would be looking into ways to save money and cut costs, to make sure the system continues in the years to come, which is something the entire community needs.

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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

While legislators publicly advocated for a universal “haircut” in their rhetoric throughout the session, the private sector alone was handed the bill and required to pay it. Without question, a traditional Louisiana populist agenda won this session. The budget passed by the 2015 Leg-islature and signed into law by the governor:

• Spent more than $600 mil-lion in new taxes on critical com-ponents of a healthy economy, such as inventory, electricity and research;

• Made no attempt to address the struc-tural problems in the state budget that have plagued the state for years and is derided by policymakers and experts alike;

• Maintained the overall size, scope and structure of state government, which is almost $9 billion larger in 2015 than a decade ago;

• Failed to reform or restructure nationally-high levels of state support for local government, making no reduction whatsoever to these annual subsidies;

• Utilized no viable analysis of tax credits to focus on those least harmful to the economy and actually ignored existing facts, research and data;

• Spent millions more on K-12 public schools to pay for increasing costs primar-ily due to entitlements without making any reforms or demands that dollars be prioritized for the classroom;

• Provided a COLA for state pension recipients — that the governor eventually vetoed — that raised immediate concerns by national rating agencies and directly circumvented pension reforms that were passed just one year earlier; and

• Made no reductions whatsoever to certain areas of state government, includ-ing the legislative budget that received zero cuts and to the judiciary budget, which actually grew this year to account for salary increases for judges.

The fact is that — even before these size-able tax increases go into effect — tax collec-tions in Louisiana were already projected to increase over the next five years. That tax revenue growth projection, which was due to an expanding economy, is now in question.

Tax policy was not the only area where the Legislature made the choice to priori-tize government over private citizens. The House of Representatives refused to take a vote on a bill to end the role of govern-

ment as the middleman between taxpayers and public unions, instead allowing the mandate of automatic deduction of union dues to continue across state and local government. A House committee rejected a package of bills to require additional trans-parency and disclosure by the judicial branch, choosing to keep buried court finances in a state routinely criticized nationally for having a poor legal climate.

On the positive side, legisla-tors voted to protect the Trans-portation Trust Fund and ensure

taxpayer dollars intended for roads are used for that purpose. The Legislature also refused to roll back higher standards for students and rejected new causes of action on employers.

The 2015 regular legislative session rep-resents a pivotal point in Louisiana politics. The Legislature sent a resounding message that maintaining the size and operations of state government was as important — if not more important — than growing jobs and opportunities for citizens in the private sector across this state.

Louisiana cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past, where we take an economic boom for granted, only to see hard times quickly follow. At LABI, we do not believe the state can weave in and out of competitiveness, in and out of the path to progress.

This year, the Legislature came up short, and it will be up to a new administration and new Legislature to make 2015 a temporary setback.

That only happens if you make your voice heard this fall. Information can lead to knowledge and it can be a powerful tool. Please take the time to do your part.

Alongside our 2,500 member companies around the state, LABI looks forward to working with the 2016 Legislature to fix a fundamentally broken tax code, advance workforce development, improve our legal climate, solve infrastructure needs and limit the role of government in the private sector.

Stephen Waguespack is the president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.

Police body cameras recently became the center of debate following the deaths of several individuals at the hands of police.

Many police departments, including Grambling State University’s, adopted the clip-on body cameras.

And Americans seem to agree with this decision.

According to a poll by you-gov.com, an international In-ternet-based market research firm, 88 percent of Americans support the idea of police wear-ing body cameras while only 7 percent oppose it.

But how far do we go with body cameras?

Should they be implement-ed in schools or is that too far?

One Iowa state school dis-trict does not think so.

Burlington Community School District in southeastern Iowa will now require principals and vice principals to record parent and student interactions — a move district officials said will protect both parties.

“It’s personal accountability,” Super-intendent Pat Coen told The Des Moines Register. “Did we treat this person with dignity, honor and respect? And if we didn’t, why didn’t we?”

The ruling came after accusations of an administrator kicking a student.

Lincoln Parish School Superintendent Mike Milstead said he believes the Iowa school district may have gone too far.

“It is an overreach by school leaders invading the privacy of the personal con-versations between school administrators and their students and the students’ par-ents,” he said. “You have to be careful not

to overreact in matters like these.“For a case like the Iowa one, you have

to get all the facts and view the situation as a whole,” he said. “I feel like the con-versations between a principal, or vice

principal, do not need video or audio because it is important for the student or parents to feel comfortable to speak with the administrator about what they please — so long the conversa-tion is of importance.”

Milstead said he would not oppose to putting cameras in classrooms.

“With cameras in class-rooms, we could be able to see how the whole incident plays out,” he said. “Students may feel less inclined to act up in class if

they knew a camera was watching them.”But for the time being, Milstead said

body cameras will not be placed on ad-ministration in Lincoln Parish, and he feels body cameras should not be placed on administration anywhere because of the current state of education.

For now, the debate will continue to be about whether or not body cameras should be placed on police officers.

As far as education goes, body cameras on principals and vice principals seems far-fetched — even in today’s world where some may think disciplining children is at an all-time low.

Derek J. Amaya is a reporter for the Ruston Daily Leader. He covers the city of Grambling, K-12 education and higher education. He can be reached via email at [email protected], via Twitter @DerekAmaya or via Facebook.


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Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series of Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation.

Ashley and Dustin Morris understand how crucial farm-ing is to their par-ish, their state and their country.

They also know it’s not enough for today’s farming family to work hard and bring in a crop. The mod-ern farmer has to be a leader and a spokesman for ag-riculture. That’s why the couple agreed to apply for Farm Bureau’s 2015 Young Farmer and Rancher Achieve-ment Award, given annually to the most outstanding young farm couple in the state. Because Ashley and Dustin Morris are such great representatives of Loui-siana’s farming community, they were selected as the state’s best young farmers.

“It was a huge honor to win this,” Dustin Morris said. “There are a lot of great young farmers in this state and to be considered one of the better ones is a huge honor.”

The Morris family was one of 14 entries in the annual contest and one of three finalists who were recognized at the awards presentation during the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation’s 93rd Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Marriott.

The top prize was a $40,000 credit to-wards the Chevrolet or GMC vehicle of their choice, compliments of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Com-pany, $1,500 worth of equipment rental from H&E Equipment Services and a $500 Visa gift card, courtesy of Conquest Completion Services. The couple also won an all-expense paid trip to Orlando, Florida, to compete for the national title at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, Jan. 10-13, 2016.

The application process is detailed, said Carey Martin, LFBF public relations director. Every parish Farm Bureau office may have one entry into the statewide competition but the contest is designed to let the cream rise to the top.

“We’d love to have a nominee from every parish for consideration,” Martin said. “The purpose of the competition is to identify, recognize and encourage young people in agriculture. The written application is not just a form they fill out with their name, addresses and phone number. It’s an in-depth process that requires good presentation; articulate expression of ideas and quantitative agricultural analysis of their farming operations. Of course, we think the prize of a brand new truck is plenty of incentive for anyone to consider the competition.”

Dustin Morris, 32, earned a degree in agricultural engineering from Missis-sippi State University. Ashley Morris is a stay-at-home mother providing care for their three children, Addison, 7, Kimber, 5, and Audrey, 2. When the time is right, Ashley Morris may return to the law profession.

Raising three children in any profes-sion is trying but the Morris’s have the division of labor adjusted to their par-ticular needs.

“Being married to a farmer is demand-ing,” Ashley said. “He works long hours most of the time so that puts pressure on me to be the parent at home. With the way the weather and the markets go, it’s important for me to be supportive. What I bring to the farm is that love and support. Whatever he needs, I can do.”

Dustin Morris, a fourth generation farmer, knew at an early age exactly what he wanted to do: He wanted to farm.

“I’ve known since I was a small child that this is what I wanted to do,” he said. “My grandfather owned a gin and I just loved to go with him and ride on the cot-ton picker, ride in the truck pulling the cotton picker, going to the gin, being with my dad when we were all one big farm together. That was just a passion to go and see everything that was going on. Something I’ve always loved to do was raise a crop.

“I had my first crop when I was 18. I did the work when I was in school. I was very small, a couple hundred acres. It was there in the summer, which is the majority of raising a crop. I was home every weekend while we were planting and springing pipe. I’d be there through the peak irrigation season in the summer. I didn’t have much while I was in college; just enough to keep me going.”

Ronald Anderson is president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation. An-derson is a cattle producer, forage grower and timber landowner from Ethel. Ander-son was first elected in 1988.

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18,351.36 15,855.12 Dow Industrials 18,050.17 -3.41 -.02 +1.27 +5.329,310.22 7,700.57 Dow Transportation 8,224.31 -59.89 -.72 -10.02 -2.06

657.17 524.82 Dow Utilities 573.15 +2.97 +.52 -7.27 +2.5811,254.87 9,886.08 NYSE Composite 10,958.83 -34.43 -.31 +1.10 -.545,164.36 4,116.60 Nasdaq Composite 5,098.94 -5.95 -.12 +7.66 +15.21

938.44 814.14 S&P 100 930.78 +.84 +.09 +2.47 +5.722,134.72 1,820.66 S&P 500 2,107.40 -1.55 -.07 +2.36 +6.351,551.28 1,269.45 S&P MidCap 1,513.43 -9.56 -.63 +4.20 +7.28

22,537.15 19,160.13 Wilshire 5000 22,252.58 -48.05 -.22 +2.69 +6.301,296.00 1,040.47 Russell 2000 1,264.52 -8.81 -.69 +4.97 +9.81

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Vanguard 500Adml LB 149,834 194.58 +1.3 +9.0/B +16.4/A NL 10,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 124,038 53.13 +1.0 +9.1/B +16.6/A NL 10,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 118,204 53.11 +1.0 +9.0/B +16.5/A NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 104,957 192.68 +1.2 +9.0/B +16.4/A NL 5,000,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 90,332 192.69 +1.2 +9.0/B +16.4/A NL 200,000,000Fidelity Contra LG 77,097 104.68 +2.7 +13.0/C +16.5/C NL 2,500American Funds GrthAmA m LG 75,159 45.49 +0.5 +9.6/D +15.5/D 5.75 250American Funds IncAmerA m MA 72,608 21.48 +0.3 +2.6/D +11.2/A 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 70,453 59.62 +0.6 +1.8/A +9.6/A 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FB 69,668 43.97 -0.7 -3.1/D +9.5/A NL 2,500Vanguard WelltnAdm MA 66,881 68.02 +0.5 +4.8/B +11.5/A NL 50,000PIMCO TotRetIs CI 65,759 10.61 +0.6 +2.0/B +4.0/B NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotIntl FB 64,548 16.21 -0.7 -4.0/E +6.5/D NL 3,000Dodge & Cox Stock LV 59,870 183.46 +0.4 +5.8/B +16.5/A NL 2,500Vanguard TotBdAdml CI 58,733 10.71 +0.1 +2.0/B +3.2/D NL 10,000American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 57,860 37.43 +0.1 +5.9/D +14.4/D 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 56,337 47.64 +0.5 +2.9/C +11.2/C 5.75 250FrankTemp-Franklin IncomeA m CA 50,983 2.33 -0.8 -4.4/E +8.7/A 4.25 1,000American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 50,975 41.15 +1.1 +5.4/C +15.4/A 5.75 250Fidelity Spartan 500IdxAdvtg LB 49,865 74.33 +1.3 +9.0/B +16.3/A NL 10,000American Funds AmBalA m MA 47,990 24.98 +1.0 +5.6/A +12.3/A 5.75 250Vanguard IntlStkIdxIPls FB 46,326 108.47 -0.7 -3.9/E NA NL 100,000,000American Funds FnInvA m LB 44,806 53.69 +1.0 +8.1/C +14.9/C 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Income CI 44,320 13.61 0.0 +1.2/C +4.2/B NL 2,500Harbor IntlInstl FB 43,757 70.71 -0.2 -1.4/C +8.3/B NL 50,000Vanguard TotStIIns LB 42,320 53.14 +1.0 +9.1/B +16.6/A NL 5,000,000Metropolitan West TotRetBdI CI 42,059 10.80 +0.2 +2.0/B +5.3/A NL 3,000,000Vanguard InstTStPl LB 40,742 48.05 +1.0 +9.1/B +16.7/A NL 200,000,000Vanguard HltCrAdml SH 40,409 102.41 +4.1 +31.9/D +24.9/C NL 50,000T Rowe Price GrowStk LG 40,304 57.41 +2.3 +16.5/A +18.7/A NL 2,500Vanguard MuIntAdml MI 38,610 14.05 +0.3 +2.8/B +3.9/B NL 50,000

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S&P 5002,107.40 -1.55

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Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards.lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split ofat least 50 percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = Whenissued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, orredemption fee. f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’snet asset value. s = fund split shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week. Source: TheAssociated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

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LONDON (AP) — A nearly complete, new dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in China, the fi rst in its family to have unusually short feath-ered wings.

The new species named Zhenyuanlong suni is a close cousin of the dinosaur predator Velociraptor.

Scientists said the new addition, which lived around 125 million years ago, had multiple layers of dense feathers covering both its wings and tail. Experts, how-

ever, believe the feath-ers are more for display instead of fl ying.

Steve Brusatte, of the University of Edinburgh, co-authored the study published online today in Scientifi c Reports. He said the newly discovered di-nosaur "looks just like a bird ... just like an eagle or a vulture."

The skeleton was dis-covered in the western part of Liaoning Prov-ince in China where the fi rst feathered dinosaurs were found.

O K L A H O M A C I T Y (AP) — President Barack Obama's push for a fairer justice system is literally sending him to prison.

As part of a weeklong focus on inequities in the criminal justice system, Obama will meet sepa-rately Thursday with law enforcement offi cials and nonviolent drug offenders who are paying their debt to society at the El Reno Federal Correctional Insti-tution, a medium-security prison for male offenders near Oklahoma City.

He'll be the fi rst sitting president to see the inside of a federal prison, the White House said.

Obama will also be in-terviewed at El Reno for an upcoming “Vice News” documentary on the crimi-nal justice system.

The goal is usually to keep people with criminal histories far away from a president, not to put a presi-dent in their midst. But, as much as it may defy logic, the controlled environment of a prison is better than many of the public venues

where presidents appear, said Danny Spriggs, a for-mer deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service, which provides the president's security.

Who comes and goes from a prison is strictly limited and everyone's background is known.

"It's better that he goes there than out in the general public," said Spriggs, now vice president of global security for The Associated Press.

White House press sec-retary Josh Earnest said

"unique steps" will be taken to protect Obama during the visit. He did not elaborate.

Secret Service spokes-man Brian Leary said "com-prehensive security screen-ing" will be conducted, calling it standard practice.

Spriggs, who said he is familiar with El Reno, said Obama's prison tour likely will be limited to critical areas, and those areas will be roped off so that access is given only to the warden and immediate staff so they can explain what happens there daily.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher in the U.S. after several big companies reported better earn-ings.

Citig roup, Intel , Netflix and eBay all rose in early trading Thursday after report-ing results that beat analysts' forecasts.

E u r o p e a n m a r -kets also rose after Greece's parliament approved pension re-forms, tax increases and other measures

demanded by its credi-tors.

The Dow Jones in-dustrial average was up 62 points, or 0.3 percent, at 18,107 as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time.

T h e S t a n d a r d & Poor's 500 index gained 11 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,118. The Nasdaq composite climbed 31 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,130.

Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.39 percent.

K E N N E B U N K P O R T, Maine (AP) — Former Presi-dent George H.W. Bush, at 91 the oldest living former president, was being treated at a hospital early Thursday for a broken bone in his neck suffered in a fall.

Bush, the 41st U.S. presi-dent, fell on Wednesday at his summer home in Kennebunk-port but was doing OK and was wearing a neck brace, a Bush spokesman said.

"41 fell at home in Maine today and broke a bone in his neck," spokesman Jim Mc-Grath tweeted on Wednesday night. "His condition is stable

— he is fi ne — but he'll be in a neck brace."

Bush was being treated at Portland's Maine Medical Center, where a children's hospital is named for his wife.

The medical center con-fi rmed his condition was sta-ble but said it was premature to speculate about when he'll be released. It said he would be there at least overnight.

Bush, who has a form of Parkinson's disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility, has suffered other recent health setbacks.

He was hospitalized in

Houston in December for about a week for shortness of breath. He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care at the same Houston hospital for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.

Bush, a Republican, served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before being elected president in 1988. After one term, highlighted by the success of the 1991 Gulf War in Kuwait, he lost to Democrat Bill Clinton amid voters' concerns about the economy.

Bush, the father of Re-publican former President

George W. Bush, was a naval aviator in World War II and was shot down over the Pacifi c.

He also was a former U.S. ambassador to China and a CIA director.

He has skydived on at least three of his birthdays since leaving the White House. He celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem para-chute jump near his Ken-nebunkport home. He cele-brated a low-key 91st birthday with his family there.

During the winter, Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, live in Houston.

DENVER (AP) — Colo-rado is known for pushing boundaries on marijuana, but a recent decision from the state health officials rejecting pot as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder shows the issue is far from settled.

Though voters have made marijuana legal for both medical and recreational use, public offi cials at every level of government have continually pushed back.

The Board of Health voted 6-2 Wednesday against adding PTSD to the list of ailments eligible for treat-ment with marijuana.

The rejection came de-spite a recommendation from Colorado's chief medi-cal offi cer and a panel of physicians.

Board members cited a lack of research, including medical trials. "We have an absence of scientifi c in-

formation," board member Rick Brown said.

Marijuana is illegal un-der federal law and some scientists say research has been stymied by govern-ment hurdles, including a declaration that marijuana is a controlled substance with no accepted medical use.

Last month, the Depart-ment of Health and Human Services made it a little easier for privately funded medical marijuana research to get approved. The depart-ment said a federal Public Health Service review of research proposals is no longer necessary because it duplicates a required re-view by the Food and Drug Administration.

But some people attend-ing Wednesday's PTSD vote in Denver pointed out that none of the medical condi-tions currently eligible for

state medical marijuana cards, including AIDS, epi-lepsy and glaucoma, has the kind of scientifi c backing the board mentioned.

One physician recently awarded a state grant to study marijuana use by veterans testifi ed that PTSD sufferers are already using pot to treat their symptoms.

"People are going to use it anyway," said Dr. Sue Sisley, adding PTSD sufferers can shop at recreational dispen-saries or get a doctor's rec-ommendation for the broad category of "severe pain," which covers more than 90 percent of the 113,000 Colo-radans on the state medical marijuana registry.

Sisley pointed out that many of those patients ask pot-shop employees known as "budtenders," not their physicians, about using pot to treat PTSD.

"This just provides better

access to different strains under a physician's guid-ance," Sisley said in favor of adding PTSD to the medical pot registry.

The chief medical of-fi cer, Dr. Larry Wolk, told the board that adding PTSD would make the registry more "honest."

Nine states consider PTSD a qualifying condi-tion for medical marijuana: Arizona, California, Con-necticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Mexico and Oregon.

But the board, many of them physicians, said they couldn't approve a medical treatment that falls short of federal guidelines.

"This is a terrible condi-tion. We don't have a great way to treat it," board chair-man Dr. Tony Cappello said, highlighting an established federal process for drug ap-provals.

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U.S. stocks open higher as Citi, others report

strong earnings

PINEVILLE(AP) — The Huey P. Long Medical Center building in Pineville is steeped in history, and now its legacy in-cludes a place on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Town Talk reports the addition of the 76-year-old building to the National Reg-ister was announced Tuesday by offi cials of the Historical As-sociation of Central Louisiana, which funded the process for National Register status.

"It's a dream come true," said Helen W. Moore, an as-sociation member who has a special connection to the building.

She worked at the charity hospital as a registered dieti-tian for 27 years.

Moore said she thinks tax breaks that accompany Na-tional Register status will lead a developer to repurpose "that sturdy, wonderful building that is part of our history."

Pineville building on National Register of Historic Places

George HW Bush, 91, falls, breaks bone in neck, hospitalized

Colorado rejects pot for PTSD use

Obama will go to prison for a fairer justice system


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Robinson Football Camp set for SaturdayThe legacy lives on as the seventh annual Eddie G. Robinson Sr. Football Camp will be held begin-

ning at 8 a.m. Saturday at Greenwood Recreational Center, located at 1306 Cornell Ave. in Ruston. The free camp is open for boys and girls ags 7-18 and honors the late Eddie G. Robinson, above right, a College Hall of Fame football coach. It will be the first camp since the death of its other namesake and founder, Eddie Robinson Jr., above left, who passed away last year. Pre-registration can be done at the Ruston Housing Authority branch office located at 901 Martin Luther King Dr. in Ruston. For more information, call Ronnie Lyons at 255-3644 (ext. 300) or at 202-0504.

Tech picked to take

C-USA West

Leader file photoLouisiana Tech head coach Skip Holtz’ (right)

Bulldogs have been selected by a panel of media members that cover Conference USA schools to win the league’s West Division.

WKU tabbed team to beat in East

Leader Sports Service

IRVING, Texas — Louisi-ana Tech has been picked to repeat as the West Division champion while WKU has been selected to win the 2015 East Division title in a pre-season vote conducted by a panel of media members that cover Conference USA schools.

Tech reached the C-USA title game in its second year under head coach Skip Holtz and brings back six starters on offense and defense as it seeks a return trip.

Senior tailback Kenneth Dixon, the nation’s leading active rusher (3,410 yards) who scored 28 total touch-downs last year (22 rushing) leads an offense that wel-comes a new signal-caller in Florida senior transfer Jeff Driskell as well as three returning starters at wide receiver.

The defense boasts a talented secondary that has seen junior safety Xavier Woods and senior corner-back Adarius Barnes each named to preseason award watch lists, while safety Kentrell Brice led the team in tackles with 86.

While the media selected the projected order of finish, the league’s 13 head coaches selected the preseason all-conference teams. Tech had four student-athletes selected including defensive tackle Vernon Butler, run-ning back Kenneth Dixon, receiver Trent Taylor and safety Xavier Woods.

WKU closed out last season with five consecutive victories, including a win in the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl. In 2014, the Hilltoppers

became the first FBS Team to have a 4,500 yard passer and 1,500 yard rusher as se-nior quarterback Brandon Doughty threw for 4,830 and senior running back Leon Allen rushed for 1,542.

Both players are back and Doughty, the 2014 C-USA MVP and Sammy Baugh Award winner, will also have four of his top six tar-gets back in the fold.

Nine starters, led by se-nior linebacker Nick Holt (111 tackles) are back to lead an experienced WKU defense.

Rice, coming off three consecutive bowl games and led by senior quarter-back Driphus Jackson (24 TDs in 2014), was selected second, followed by senior running back Aaron Jones (1,321 rushing yards and 14 TDs) and his UTEP Miners. Closing out the media picks in the West Division are Southern Miss, North Texas and UTSA, respectively.

Defending C-USA Cham-pion Marshall, led by senior running back Devon John-son (sixth in FBS with 1,767 yards and 17 rushing TDs) was picked second in the East, followed by Middle Tennessee and senior safety Kevin Byard, the nation’s ac-tive leader in interceptions with 15.

Rounding out the media picks in the East are Florida Atlantic, FIU, Old Dominion and newcomer Charlotte.

The 11th annual Confer-ence USA Football Cham-pionship Game, pitting the champions of the East and West Divisions, will be held on Dec. 5. The 2015 C-USA Football season kicks off Sept. 3.

Photo by ASHLEY THOMPSONTyler Summitt and the Lady Techsters hit the court Wednesday wearing weight vests for agility drills.

Techsters begin summer workoutsLeader Sports Service

Karl Malone Court at the Thomas Assembly Center looked the same early Wednesday morning as 12 young ladies took the floor for agili-ties following a session of weights.

Second year Louisiana Tech head coach Tyler Summitt and his coaching staff — including long-time legend and Associate Head Coach Mickie DeMoss and assistant coaches Bernitha Johnson and Am-ber Smith — were business as usual.

It was tone-setting time for Sum-mit and Co. Even the infamous 20-pound weight vests made an appearance, strapped to the bodies of the 12 scholarship Lady Techster players. In all honesty, everything had a similar look and feel to year No. 1 under the Summitt regime.

Everything, except the majority of the faces. In fact, nametags might be needed for the first few practices.

Exactly half of this year’s roster is comprised of student-athletes who weren’t enrolled at Louisiana Tech last year. Two-thirds of the roster has never donned a Lady Techster uniform in a game.

“I feel a little like we are starting from square one,” Summitt said. “Even last year, Tiara (Davenport) was the only true freshman. To a

have so many true freshmen, it is not only a new system but it is college versus high school. That’s the big-gest difference. We are transitioning (all the freshmen) to our coaching staff as well to a college pace and a college system.”

Seniors Brandi Wingate and Ruby Richie — Richie was just awarded a scholarship for her final season at Tech — junior Kevione Moten and Davenport are the only four players to suit up last year for the Lady Techsters.

A pair of Marquette transfers Brooke Pumroy and Ashley Santos practiced with the team but were unable to play in 2014-15 due to the NCAA transfer rule.

With so many new faces, Summitt said it’s critical that the returners pave the way with their work ethic and attitude on and off the floor.

“It’s so important,” Summitt said. “That was the message after agilities today. The captains have to bring the sense of urgency every day to improve. Brandi, Brooke, Ashley — our three summer captains — they have to bring it. For the others who have been here and have seen it, they have to bring it as well.”

Freshmen Kierra Anthony, Jas-mine LeBlanc, Reauna Cleaver and Dawn Gipson join junior college

transfer Rochelle Vasquez and Buf-falo transfer Alexus Malone to round out the six newcomers. Summitt announced that freshman Kennedy Rushin, who signed with Tech in November, will not be enrolled at Tech this year.

With so many newcomers on the team, Summitt said it is imperative that they utilize the allowable prac-tice time each week to their fullest potential.

“This time of the year we are only allowed eight hours a week, with only two hours with a basketball,” Summitt said. “This morning we didn’t do anything with a basketball. We did weights and team agilities. This afternoon we will have indi-vidual basketball workouts and that’s where we get down to the skill development. We have a long way to go. I can tell our players are hungry to learn and that is a good thing.

“I don’t think we will be lack-ing athleticism. I don’t know how athletic just yet. We saw them doing things in high school where we said ‘Yeah, I think we are exceptionally athletic.’ But until I see them with a basketball going 5-on-5, it will be hard to tell too much really.”

With so many new faces, Summitt is just trying to tell his players apart at this point.

Cowboys show WR Dez Bryant the moneyIRVING, Texas (AP) — Dez

Bryant has the long-term contract he said he wouldn’t play without, and the Dallas Cowboys can quit worrying about whether he really would skip games.

The All-Pro receiver signed a five-year, $70 million deal Wednesday, after months of posturing from both sides and less than an hour before a deadline that would have required him to play under a one-year agreement.

“There was never a doubt in my mind that we wanted a long-term deal with Dez,” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. “We just had to get the pot right.”

To do that, Jones flew to New York on Tuesday with son and executive vice presi-dent Stephen Jones to meet with agent Tom Condon and representatives of Jay Z’s Roc Nation talent agency. The elder Jones said they were up until 3 a.m. Wednesday

discussing terms, and he went to bed confident a deal was all but done.

A person close to the ne-gotiations provided contract terms to The Associated Press because they weren’t announced. The deal, which includes $45 million in guar-anteed money, is similar to one Denver receiver Demary-ius Thomas signed about the same time as Bryant.

At an average of $14 million annually, Bryant

and Thomas are now the second-highest paid receiv-ers behind Detroit’s Calvin Johnson ($16 million).

The 26-year-old Bryant, who led the NFL with 16 touchdowns receiving last season, had threatened to skip training camp and reg-ular-season games without a contract to replace the $12.8 million offer for one year he had under the franchise tag.

Once the sides got close enough, Bryant rode to the

team’s Valley Ranch head-quarters. He was pictured there signing the contract with his son in his arms.

“I smiled the whole way over here. I couldn’t even say nothing but just smile and laugh, because I couldn’t believe it,” Bryant said in a story on the team’s website. “All I could just think about is that it’s a dream — a dream come true. I think the only thing that’s missing is a Su-per Bowl.” Bryant

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(231) HBO2 ++ "The Other Woman" (2014) Cameron Diaz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. (2h)

(234) HBOF +++ "The Untouchables" (1987) Kevin Costner, Sean Connery. (2h)

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1:00 (243) SHOWE ++ "Mission: Impossible III" (2006) Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman. (2h15)

1:15 (47) TCM ++ "Pride of the Bluegrass" (1939) Edith Fellows, James McCallion. (1h15)

(225) STRZB +++ "15 Minutes" (2001) Robert De Niro, Edward Burns. (2h5)

(240) SHOW ++ "Nacho Libre" (2006) Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera. (1h45)

1:20 (233) HBOS ++ "Inspector Gadget" (1999) Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett. (1h20)

1:25 (245) TMC2 +++ "The Butler" (2013) Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey. (2h15)

1:30 (45) FXX ++ "Prometheus" (2012) Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green. (2h30)

1:35 (242) SHOW3 ++ "Into the Blue" (2005) Jessica Alba, Paul Walker. (1h55)

1:45 (228) STRZC +++ "Walk on Water" (2004) Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger. (Subtitled) (1h45)

2:00 (231) HBO2 ++ "Armageddon" (1998) Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler. (2h35)

(234) HBOF ++ "Larry Crowne" (2011) Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts. (1h45)

2:05 (241) SHOW2 ++ "A Walk on the Moon" (1998) Viggo Mortensen, Diane Lane. (1h55)

2:30 (42) AMC ++ "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" (2007) Jessica Alba, Chris Evans. (2h)

(47) TCM +++ "The Return of Doctor X" (1939) Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan. (1h15)

(230) HBO ++ "Norbit" (2007) Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton. (1h45)

2:35 (224) STRZE ++ "Picture Perfect" (1997) Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr. (1h45)

(235) MAX ++ "Dreamgirls" (2006) Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles. (2h15)

3:00 (240) SHOW ++++ "12 Monkeys" (1995) Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe. (2h15)

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(243) SHOWE ++ "Sneakers" (1992) Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier. (2h15)

3:20 (225) STRZB +++ "Facing Ali" (2009) George Chuvalo, Henry Cooper. (1h45)

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3:40 (232) HBO3 +++ "Draft Day" (2014) Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner. (1h55)

(245) TMC2 ++ "Judge Dredd" (1995) Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante. (1h40)

3:45 (47) TCM ++ "The Man Who Talked Too Much" (1940) George Brent, David Bruce. (1h30)

(234) HBOF +++ "V for Vendetta" (2006) Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving. (2h15)

4:00 (45) FXX +++ "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003) Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush. (3h)

(241) SHOW2 ++ "The Cat’s Meow" (2001) Cary Elwes, Kirsten Dunst. (2h)

4:15 (233) HBOS ++++ "Rio 2" (2014) Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway. (1h45)

4:30 (42) AMC ++ "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008) Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly. (2h30)

(56) FX ++ "Identity Thief" (2013) Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy. (2h30)

4:50 (235) MAX ++ "Charlie’s Angels" (2000) Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz. (1h40)

5:00 (29) USA +++ "Fast Five" (2011) Vin Diesel, Paul Walker. (3h)

(43) SYFY ++ "Deep Blue Sea" (1999) Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson. (2h)

(236) MMAX ++ "Blade Runner" (1982) Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer. (2h)

5:15 (47) TCM ++ "Flight From Destiny" (1941) Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn. (1h45)

(240) SHOW ++++ "Boyhood" (2014) Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke. (2h45)

(242) SHOW3 ++++ "Begin Again" (2014) Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo. (1h45)

5:30 (51) FAM ++ "Casper" (1995) Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman. (2h)

(243) SHOWE ++ "Even Money" (2006) Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito. (2h)

5:35 (228) STRZC ++ "St. Trinian’s" (2007) Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett. (1h45)

5:55 (224) STRZE ++ "Quigley Down Under" (1991) Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo. (2h5)

6:00 (222) STRZ +++ "Remember the Titans" (2000) Denzel Washington, Will Patton. (2h)

(234) HBOF +++ "Red 2" (2013) Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren. (1h55)

6:30 (235) MAX +++ "Bad Words" (2014) Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn. (1h30)

6:55 (245) TMC2 ++ "Find Me Guilty" (2006) Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage. (2h5)

7:00 (32) TNT +++ "Wanted" (2008) James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman. (2h30)

(42) AMC +++ "Lethal Weapon" (1987) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover. (2h30)

(56) FX +++ "This Is the End" (2013) James Franco, Jonah Hill. (2h)

(231) HBO2 ++ "Godzilla" (2014) Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. (2h5)

(236) MMAX +++ "The Corruptor" (1999) Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg. (1h55)

(242) SHOW3 +++ "August: Osage County" (2013) Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. (2h)

(244) TMC ++ "The Rocketeer" (1991) Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly. (2h)

7:15 (225) STRZB ++ "Annapolis" (2006) James Franco, Tyrese Gibson. (1h45)

(233) HBOS +++ "A Little Princess" (1995) Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron. (1h45)

7:30 (243) SHOWE +++ "The Amityville Horror" (2005) Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George. (1h30)

8:00 (224) STRZE +++ "Blow" (2001) Johnny Depp, Rachel Griffiths. (2h5)

(230) HBO ++ "Tammy" (2014) Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon. (1h45)

(235) MAX ++ "RoboCop" (1987) Kurtwood Smith, Peter Weller. (1h45)

8:50 (226) STRZK +++ "Deep Blue" (2005) Pierce Brosnan. (1h35)

9:00 (47) TCM ++ "McQ" (1974) John Wayne, Eddie Albert. (2h)

(245) TMC2 +++ "The Butler" (2013) Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey. (2h15)

9:30 (32) TNT ++ "S.W.A.T." (2003) Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell. (2h30)

(42) AMC +++ "Lethal Weapon 2" (1989) Mel Gibson, Danny Glover. (2h30)

9:45 (235) MAX +++ "Robocop 2" (1990) Peter Weller, Nancy Allen. (2h)

10:05 (224) STRZE ++ "From Hell" (2001) Johnny Depp, Heather Graham. (2h5)

(225) STRZB ++ "The Art of War II: Betrayal" (2008) Wesley Snipes, Athena Karkanis. (1h45)

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10:30 (242) SHOW3 ++ "Idlewild" (2006) Antwan Patton, Andre Benjamin. (2h)

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(51) FAM ++ "The Flintstones" (1994) John Goodman, Rosie O’Donnell. (2h)

(240) SHOW ++++ "12 Monkeys" (1995) Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe. (2h15)

11:15 (245) TMC2 +++ "Where the Truth Lies" (2005) Kevin Bacon, Alison Lohman. (1h50)

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(3) KTBS Dr. Phil Inside Edition Jeopardy! KTBS 3 News World News KTBS 3 News at Six The Astronaut Wives Club (N) Mistresses (N) Rookie Blue (N) KTBS 3 News Jimmy Kimmel Live Nightline

(7) TBS Friends Friends Seinf. 1/2 Seinf. 2/2 Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Seinfeld Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy The Big Bang The Big Bang Conan (N) The Office Conan

(8) WGN Blue Bloods Blue Bloods Home Videos 1/2 cont'd next Home Videos Pt. 2 of 2 Funniest Home Videos Met Mother Met Mother Met Mother Met Mother Met Mother Rules of Eng Rules of Eng Parks and Rec

(9) KARD Judge Mathis Living Family Feud Steve Harvey The Big Bang The Big Bang BOOM! (N) Wayward Pines (N) KARDNews The Insider Hot/ Cleve. TMZ Dish Nation Paid Program

(10) KTVE The Doctors The Dr. Oz Show (N) NBC 10 News NBC News NBC 10 News Ent. Tonight Food Fighters (N) Aquarius (N) Hannibal (N) NBC News The Tonight Show Seth Meyers

(11) KAQY The Wendy Williams Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Judge Judy World News Inside Edition Two and Half The Astronaut Wives Club (N) Mistresses (N) Rookie Blue (N) Two and Half Jimmy Kimmel Live Nightline

(12) KSLA Flip My Food Fix It&Finish It The Doctors KSLA News 12 Evening News KSLA News 12 The Big Bang Mom Big Brother Under the Dome (N) KSLA News 12 NCIS: New Orleans James Corden

(13) KLTM Arthur Odd Squad Wild Kratts Wild Kratts News America Business (N) PBS NewsHour Father Brown Doc Martin The Doctor Blake Mysteries Death in Paradise Charlie Rose (N) (14) KMCT Off Air

(15) CW The Bill Cunningham Show Rules of Eng Rules of Eng Cops: Reload Cops: Reload King of Hill Cleveland Beauty and the Beast Dates (N) Dates (N) Seinfeld Seinf. 1/2 Cougar Town Cougar Town Raising Hope Community

(19) CSPAN U.S. House of Representatives Key Capitol Hill Hearings

(21) TBN Trinity Family Lifestyle Mag. Life Today Robert Morris The 700 Club John Hagee Ron Carpenter Praise the Lord BillyGraham Potter's Touch Trinity Family Joel Osteen Joseph Prince Brian Houston

(22) INSP The Waltons Little House 1/2 cont'd next Little House Prairie Pt. 2 of 2 Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman The Waltons JAG Walker, Texas Ranger Matlock Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman

(23) ESPN Golf PGA The Open Championship Round 1 SportsCenter Golf PGA The Open Championship Round 1 Site: St. Andrews Royal & Ancient Golf Club Fife, Scotland SportsCenter SportsCenter

(24) ESPN2 NFL Live (L) Olbermann Outside Lines SportsNation ESPY Awards Pan American Games (L) NFL Live Baseball Tonight (L) (25) FSSW Big 12 No-Huddle Big 12 No-Huddle Big 12 No-Huddle TexansHuddle SportsDay (N) Big 12 No-Huddle Big 12 No-Huddle Big 12 No-Huddle Big 12 Outdoor SW SoonersFoot SportsDay

(26) COX NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News NBC 10 News

(29) USA Law & Order: S.V.U. Law & Order: S.V.U. +++ "Fast Five" The crew tries to leave Brazil without being arrested. Vin Diesel. Complications (N) Graceland (N) Suits Complications

(30) LIFE Hoarders: Family Secrets Hoarders: Family Secrets Hoarders: Family Secrets Hoarders: Family Secrets Hoarders: Family Secrets Hoarders: Family Secrets Living with the Enemy (N) Living with the Enemy Hoarders: Family Secrets

(31) A&E American Takedown The First 48 The First 48 The First 48 Scared Straight (N) Beyond Scared Straight (N) American Takedown (N) The First 48 Scared Straight

(32) TNT Bones Castle Castle Castle +++ "Wanted" ('08,Act) Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy. ++ "S.W.A.T." ('03,Act) Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson.

(33) FNC Your World The Five Special Report On the Record The O'Reilly Factor The Kelly File Hannity The O'Reilly Factor The Kelly File

(34) CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper The Situation Room The Situation Room OutFront Anderson Cooper 360 The Seventies (N) The Seventies Anderson Cooper 360 The Seventies

(37) HALL Little House Prairie Pt. 2 of 2 The Waltons The Waltons The Waltons The Waltons The Middle The Middle The Middle The Middle Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls

(38) GAC GAC Music Videos Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska Living Alaska

(39) WE Cutting It: In the ATL Cutting It: In the ATL Braxton Family Values Braxton Family Values Braxton Family Values Braxton Family Values (N) Cutting It: In the ATL (SF) (N) SWV Reunited Braxton Family Values

(40) PIVOT Farscape Farscape Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Farscape Peace Crichton must find a way to end the war. Descendants of Abraham Journeys

(41) UP Judging Amy 7th Heaven 7th Heaven Supernanny Bringing Up Bates Bringing Up Bringing Up Bringing Up Bringing Up The Parkers The Parkers The Parkers The Parkers

(42) AMC "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" ++ "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ('08,Dra) Keanu Reeves. +++ "Lethal Weapon" ('87,Act) Danny Glover, Mel Gibson. +++ "Lethal Weapon 2" ('89,Act) Danny Glover, Mel Gibson.

(43) SYFY "Lake Placid vs. Anaconda" ('15,Hor) Robert Englund. ++ "Deep Blue Sea" ('99,Hor) Saffron Burrows. WWE Smackdown! (N) Dominion (N) Geeks/Drink Reactor (P) Dominion

(44) TOON TeenTitansGo TeenTitansGo TeenTitansGo TeenTitansGo Steven Gumball TeenTitansGo Gumball King of Hill King of Hill Bob's Burgers Cleveland American Dad American Dad Family Guy Family Guy RobotChicken AquaTeen/Squid

(45) FXX ++ "Prometheus" +++ "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Animation Domination

(46) HIST Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men Mountain Men (N) Alone (N) Alone Mountain Men

(47) TCM Movie ++ "The Man Who Talked Too Much" ++ "Flight From Destiny" ('41,Dra) Thomas Mitchell. +++ "Brannigan" ('75,Cri) Judy Geeson, John Wayne. ++ "McQ" ('74,Act) Eddie Albert, John Wayne. ++ "Cahill, U.S. Marshal" (48) TLC Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Say Yes-Dress Dare to Wear Love, Lust or Run Love, Lust or Brides/ Styled Dare to Wear (N) Love, Lust or Brides/ Styled Dare to Wear

(49) SPROUT Super WHY! Thomas Ruff-Ruff/B.Build Chloe'sCloset Berenstain Thomas Clangers DriftwoodB. Ruff-Ruff Sarah & Duck Stella/Birthday Ruff-Ruff/Astro Berenstain Olive / Caillou Pajanimals Thomas/Caillou Berenstain Thomas

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(51) FAM Reba Reba Buffy the Vampire Slayer Boy M. World ++ "Casper" ('95,Com) Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci. "Teen Beach Movie 2" ('15,Fam) Maia Mitchell, Ross Lynch. The 700 Club ++ "The Flintstones"

(52) DISC Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid (N) Naked and Afraid XL (N) Naked and Afraid XL Naked and Afraid XL

(53) TRUTV TruTV's Top Funniest TruTV's Top Funniest TruTV's Top Funniest Impractical Impractical Impractical Impractical Impractical Impractical Jokers (SP) Friends (SP) Be Grown Up Impractical Impractical Impractical

(55) TRAV Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Museum TimeTravel. Mysteries Mysteries at the Museum (N) Mysteries at the Hotel (N) Mysteries at the Museum Mysteries at the Museum

(56) FX Two and Half Mike & Molly Mike & Molly ++ "Identity Thief" ('13,Com) Melissa McCarthy, Jason Bateman. +++ "This Is the End" ('13,Com) James Franco. Sex&Drugs Married (SP) Sex&Drugs Married Married Married

(58) OUT Driven TV The Crush Jim Shockey's Drop Zone Outdoors Hunt Masters Wardens Outdoorsman Major League Fishing Bottom Feed Nation Bow Madness Team Elk Wild Outdoors The Strip The Crush Bone Collect

(59) OWN 20/20 Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss 20/20 20/20 Undercover Boss 20/20

(60) BRAVO Housewives Atlanta Housewives Atlanta Kandi's Ski Trip Kandi's Ski Trip Kandi's Ski Trip Atlanta Social (N) Bravo First Looks (N) WatchWhat The Real Housewives Housewives

(65) HGTV Vacation House for Free Vacation House for Free Vacation House for Free (N) Fixer Upper Fixer Upper Fixer Upper House Hunt. House Hunters House Hunters House Hunters Fixer Upper

(66) FOOD Barefoot Barefoot Pioneer S. Kitchen Food Network Star Chopped Chopped Chopped Beat Flay Beat Flay Beat Flay Beat Flay Chopped

(165) DIY Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property Income Property

(222) STARZ Power The Take (N) "Whiplash" ('14,Dra) J.K. Simmons, Miles Teller. +++ "Remember the Titans" Denzel Washington. "Fury" (2014,War) Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf, Brad Pitt. ++++ "Guardians of the Galaxy" Chris Pratt.

(224) STRZE ++ "Picture Perfect" "Reasonable Doubt" ('14,Cri) Samuel L. Jackson. ++ "Quigley Down Under" ('91,West) Tom Selleck. +++ "Blow" ('01,Dra) Rachel Griffiths, Johnny Depp. ++ "From Hell" ('01,Thril) Johnny Depp.

(225) STRZB +++ "Facing Ali" ('09,Doc) George Chuvalo. Power Power ++ "Annapolis" ('06,Dra) Tyrese Gibson, James Franco. Power ++ "The Art of War II: Betrayal" Power

(226) STRZK Toto Trouble /"The Boy Who Saved Christmas" "When the Game Stands Tall" ('14,Spt) Jim Caviezel. "Muppets Most Wanted" Ty Burrell. +++ "Deep Blue" (2005,Documentary) Pierce Brosnan. "The Art of Flight" Movie

(228) STRZC Movie ++++ "Only Lovers Left Alive" Tilda Swinton. ++ "St. Trinian's" Talulah Riley. "Land Ho!" ('14,Com) Earl Lynn Nelson, Paul Eenhoorn. "At Middleton" Andy Garcia. "Third Person" Olivia Wilde, Liam Neeson.

(230) HBO ++ "Norbit" Depression Last Week "Baggage Claim" ('13,Comedy) Taye Diggs, Paula Patton. The Brink Ballers ++ "Tammy" Melissa McCarthy. First Look Sex On// True Detective Movie

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDSLincoln Parish School Board PLAYGROUND IMPROVE-MENTS To:Choudrant Elementary, Cy-press Springs Elementary, Dubach Elementary, Glen View Elementary, Hill-crest Elementary, Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center, Ruston Elementary, Sims-boro ElementaryCommission Number: 1410RSealed bids for the con-struction of the following project will be received by the Lincoln Parish School Board, located at 410 South Farmerville Street, Ruston, Louisiana 71270, either by mail or hand delivery, no later than 2:00 PM local time on Thursday, July 30, 2015, at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids received after the 2:00 PM. deadline will be returned to the bidder unopened. PROJECT: PLAYGROUND IMPROVEMENTS To:Choudrant Elementary, Cy-press Springs Elementary, Dubach Elementary, Glen View Elementary, Hill-crest Elementary, Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center, Ruston Elementary, Simsboro Elementary PROJECT CLASSIFICA-TION: Building Construc-tionCONTRACT TIME: 120 Calendar Days LIQUIDATED DAMAGES: $250.00 per Calendar DayA Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at the Lincoln Parish School Board Office located at 410 South Farmerville Street in Ruston, Louisiana. Owner Telephone (318) 255-1430 and Fax (318) 255-3203. Representatives from the OWNER and ARCHITECT will be present to discuss the Project. Bidders are encouraged to attend and participate in the confer-ence.The contractors have the option of submitting their bid to the location stated above or submitting their bid electronically at www.CENTRALBIDDING.com. The complete Contract Bid Documents, including draw-ings and specifications, will be available online at www.CENTRALBIDDING.com. Hard copy sets of the draw-ings and specifications are also available upon request with a deposit of $100.00 for each set of documents, or $10.00 for a CD containing pdf. images of the same bidding documents, from the office of Michael L. Walpole, Architect, LLC located at 330 West Mississippi Av-enue, Ruston, Louisiana 71270 (318- 251-2151). Deposit is fully refundable on two sets to all bonafide prime bidders upon return of the documents, in good condition, not later than ten (10) days after receipt of bids. The deposit of all other hard copy sets of docu-ments will be refunded 50% upon return of documents as stated above. Any Prime Bidder not bidding must return documents seven (7) days prior to bid in order to receive full deposit. A Certified Check or Ca-shier’s Check, payable to the Lincoln Parish School Board or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by the Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid, shall be submitted with each bid. If the Bid Bond option is chosen by the contractor, the Bid Bond shall be on the form that is included as part of the bid-ding documents. Bidders are advised that both a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond issued by a company licensed to do business in Louisiana, each in the amount of 100 percent (100%) of the Contract Price, will be required.Bids shall be received only on proposal forms furnished by the Architect that are included as part of the bid-ding documents. The Bidder is advised that the Lincoln Parish School board is an Equal Opportu-nity Employer. All Contractors bidding on this work shall comply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for Contrac-tors, R.S. 37:2150-2163, as amended, for all public contracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the General Contractor to assure that all subcontractors comply with this law. The Contractors must be licensed in the above proper category of work and must show their license number on the face of the sealed bid envelope.Bid proposals, amendments to bids, or request for with-drawal of bids, received after time specified for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.The bid proposal is firm for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the opening of bids and no bid proposal can be withdrawn for any reason during this period of time. The Lincoln Parish School Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause and reserves the right to waive any and all informalities.Other documentation and information required includ-ing but not limited to the low bidder’s attestation pursu-ant to R.L.S 38:2212.10 and 2227 shall be furnished by the low bidder within ten (10) days after the bid opening.

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PUBLIC NOTICELOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (LDEQ)M.L. SMITH JR. LLCDRAFT WATER DIS-CHARGE PERMITThe LDEQ, Office of En-vironmental Services, is accepting written comments on a draft Louisiana Pollut-ant Discharge Elimination System (LPDES) permit prepared for M.L. Smith Jr. LLC, , P.O. Box 1717 Ruston, LA 71273. The facility is located 2338 High-way 33 in Ruston, Lincoln Parish. Upon the effective date of the final permit, the LPDES permit shall replace the previously issued gen-eral permit authorization LAG532465.The principal discharge from this existing source is made into local drainage, thence into Colvin Creek, thence into Cypress Creek, waters of the state classified for primary contact recreation, secondary contact recre-ation and propagation of fish and wildlife. Under the SIC Codes 3443 and 1741, the applicant proposes to discharge treated sanitary wastewater and stormwater runoff from an existing metal fabrication facility.During the preparation of this permit, it has been de-termined that the discharge will have no adverse impact on the existing uses of the receiving waterbody. As with any discharge, how-ever, some change in exist-ing water quality may occur.Comments and requests for a public hearing or notifica-tion of the final decision can be submitted via personal delivery, U.S. mail, email, or fax. Comments and requests for public hearings must be received by 4:30 pm CST, Monday, August 17, 2015. Delivery may be made to the drop-box at 602 N. 5th St., Baton Rouge, LA 70802. U.S. Mail may be sent to LDEQ, Public Participation Group, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313. Emails may be submitted to [email protected] and faxes sent to (225) 219-3309.Please see additional in-structions for comment submission, hand delivery and information regard-ing electronic submission at http://www.deq.louisi-ana.gov/portal/Default.aspx?tabid=2256 or call (225) 219-3276. Emails should follow the statewide email policies. For more information regarding state-wide email policies, go to http://doa.louisiana.gov/ocs/email/policies.htm. If LDEQ finds a significant degree of public interest, a public hearing will be held. LDEQ will send notification of the final permit decision to the applicant and to each person who has submitted written comments or a writ-ten request for notification of the final decision.The permit application, ad-ditional information, draft permit, and statement of basis are available for review at the LDEQ, Public Records Center, Room 127, 602 North 5th Street, Baton Rouge, LA. Viewing hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays). The available information can also be accessed elec-tronically on the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) on the DEQ public website at www.deq.louisiana.gov.Inquiries or requests for additional information re-garding this permit action should be directed to Amy Exnicios, LDEQ, Water Permits Division, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313, phone (225) 219-4073.Persons wishing to be included on the LDEQ permit public notice mail-ing list or for other public participation related ques-tions should contact the Public Participation Group in writing at LDEQ, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313, by email at [email protected] or contact the LDEQ Customer Service Center at (225) 219-LDEQ (219-5337).Permit public notices includ-ing electronic access to the draft permit and statement of basis can be viewed at the LDEQ permits public notice webpage at www.deq.louisiana.gov/apps/pubNotice/default.asp and general information related to the public participation in permitting activities can be viewed at www.deq.louisi-ana.gov/portal/tabid/2198/Default.aspx. Alternatively, individuals may elect to receive the per-mit public notices via email by subscribing to the LDEQ permits public notice List Server at http://louisiana.gov/Services/Email_Notifi-cations_DEQ_PN/. All correspondence should specify AI Number 153578, Permit Number LA0126941, and Act iv i ty Number PER20130001.1td: July 16, 2015

THE August 12, 2015MINERAL LEASE SALENOTICE OF PUBLICATIONOFFICE OF MINERAL RESOURCESON BEHALF OF THE STATE MINERAL AND ENERGY BOARDFOR THE STATE OF LOUI-SIANA

By virtue of and in confor-mity with the provisions of Sub-part A of Chapter 2, Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other applicable laws, sealed bids will be received in the Office of Mineral Resources, LaSalle Office Building, Ba-ton Rouge, Louisiana (P. O. Box 2827, Baton Rouge, LA 70821) on or before 12:00 noon on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 for a lease to ex-plore, drill for and produce oil, gas and any other liquid or gaseous minerals in solution and produced with oil or gas on the following described tracts (Tract Nos. 44324 through 44348 , inclusive) to be opened publicly Wednesday, August 12, 2015 in the LaSalle Office Building, 617 N. 3rd Street, Capitol Complex, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

All bids shall offer a “Cash Payment” bonus, as set forth on the authorized bid form, for a lease having a primary term in conformity with whether said lease is an inland or offshore lease and the said bonus shall main-tain the lease in full force and effect for the first year. If the bid offers an ANNUAL DELAY RENTAL, which is mandatory for leases with terms of more than one (1) year, it shall not be for less than one-half (1/2) of the Cash Payment bonus bid and any bids containing an annual delay rental of less than one-half (1/2) of the Cash Payment bonus will be increased to the one-half (1/2) amount. Any lease granted shall be without warranty or any recourse whatsoever, either express or implied, against Lessor with regard to questions of title, not even for the return by Lessor of any payments received under the lease or being otherwise responsible therefore to Lessee. Under LSA- R. S. 30:127, the Mini-mum Royalty bid cannot be less than one-eighth (1/8) of all oil, gas or other liquid or gaseous minerals in solution and produced with oil or gas and saved or utilized. Rights to geothermal resources, free sulphur, potash, lignite, salt and other solid minerals are to be excluded from any oil or gas mineral lease and any bid purporting to include those rights will be disregarded as to the extent of those rights only. All bidders are notified that the Mineral Board does not obligate itself to accept any bid, and that acceptance is at the sole discretion of the Mineral Board which reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to grant a lease on any portion of the tract advertised and to withdraw the remainder of the tract.

R.S. 30:136.1 established two additional fees to be col-lected from mineral lessees (excluding state agency lands) on all mineral leases awarded. Effective August 1, 2015, Act 362 of the 2015 Regular Legislative Session increased the Oil and Gas Regulatory Fund fee from $5.00 to $15.00. Therefore, in addition to the fee of $15 per acre to be collected and deposited into the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Conserva-tion Fund, an additional fee of $15 per acre will be collected and deposited into the Oil and Gas Regulatory Fund. A separate check in the amount of $30 per acre made payable to the Office of Mineral Resources shall accompany the original bid (inside the sealed bid envelope). Bidders may use a regular check for payment of the fees. The successful bidder will not receive the lease executed by the State Mineral and Energy Board until the fees are received. If the bidder is unsuccess-ful, both the fee check and the Cash Payment bonus check will be returned to the unsuccessful bidder.All leases awarded shall be executed upon terms and conditions provided in the current State lease form with all applicable riders appended thereto a copy of which is available for review in the Office of Mineral Re-sources, Petroleum Lands Division, Leasing Section.

Certified check, cashier’s check or bank money order payable to the OFFICE OF MINERAL RESOURCES for the full amount of the aforesaid Cash Payment bonus shall be submitted with and accompany each bid, and no bid, once sub-mitted, may be thereafter withdrawn or canceled. Once the bid is opened and accepted by the Mineral Board, the accompanying checks or money order shall be negotiated by the Office of Mineral Resources and the proceeds disbursed in the manner required by law.

SPECIAL NOTE:

NOT CONSTITUTE REGIS-TRATION AS A PROSPEC-TIVE LEASEHOLDER. Act 449 specifically states that, “Only those bidders who are registered prospective leaseholders with the office of mineral resources shall be allowed to bid on tracts for the purpose of obtaining a mineral lease from the state of Louisiana.” If an entity plans to submit a bid on a tract at any State mineral lease sale, that bid WILL NOT be accepted unless the bidding entity was properly registered with the Office of Mineral Resources prior to the lease sale at which its bid was submitted. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS REQUIREMENT!!!

Under rules promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources in accordance with authority granted by Act 106 of the First Ex-traordinary Session of the Louisiana Legislature of 2002, a fee equal to ten percent (10%) of the Cash Payment bonus bid is re-quired to be submitted by separate check, accompa-nying the original bid (inside the sealed bid envelope). Bidders may use a regular check for the 10% fee. The successful bidder will not receive the lease executed by the State Mineral and Energy Board until the fee is received. If the bidder is unsuccessful, both the fee check and the Cash Payment bonus check will be returned to the unsuc-cessful bidder.

The successful bidder to whom the lease is awarded who receives the written lease executed by the State Mineral and Energy Board shall return the written lease, duly executed by Les-see (all of named Lessees on the lease instrument), within TWENTY (20) DAYS of receipt of same; failure to do so may result in forfeiture of the lease, including the administrative fee.

Bids may be for the whole or any particularly described portion of the land adver-tised, but consistent with Mineral and Energy Board policy. All bidders are hereby notified that bids on portions of tracts shall be described by metes and bounds and be accompanied by a plat (pdf) and should identify the Point of Beginning with X and Y coordinates (if applicable), the Section, Township and Range, the Block No. (if offshore), the Parish, any adjacent exist-ing State Mineral Leases. It shall also show the Topo-graphic features (Land and Water) of the area in detail similar to the Official Plat contained herein. Failure to follow these guidelines in submitting a portion bid may result in outright rejection of the portion bid by the State Mineral and Energy Board at its sole discretion.

Notice is given that the State Mineral and Energy Board will include provisions in the lease to insure applicable payments attributable to the lease property without re-gard to adverse title claims, disputes, litigation or title failure and the language of those provisions is available to any interested party at the Office of Mineral Resources. Prospective bidders should carefully examine the same prior to submitting any bid.Some tracts available for leasing may be situated in the Louisiana Coastal Zone as defined in Act 361 of the Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature of 1978 (promulgated as LSA-R. S. 49:213) and may be subject to the guidelines and regulations promulgated by the Coastal Management Section of the Department of Natural Resources for operations in the Coastal Zone.

NOTE: All bids shall specify the Cash Payment bonus for leases as a price per acre amount and an aggregate total amount, whereby a bid for the entire tract shall be controlled by the bid price per acre multiplied by the specified amount of state owned/claimed acreage advertised for the tract, and a bid for a portion of the tract shall be controlled by the bid price per acre mul-tiplied by the actual amount of state owned/claimed acreage within the polygon boundaries of the portion bid. For purposes of rental payments, the price bid per acre for the Cash Bonus, reduced if appropriate to the rental price per acre- but not less than one-half of the price per acre bid for the Cash Bonus- multiplied by the state owned/claimed acreage of the polygon bid (specified acreage if entire tract is bid; actual acreage in portion bid polygon) shall determine the amount of the rental payment throughout the primary term, regard-less of any releases. For purposes of deferred devel-opment payments, one-half of the price per acre bid for the Cash Bonus multiplied by the state owned/claimed acreage within the remain-ing lease polygon, if any release has occurred, but outside of a unit polygon within which unit activity is ongoing, shall determine the amount of the deferred development payment.

State Mineral and Energy Board will indicate which one of the multiple bids on the same tract is most advantageous, considering the royalty, per acre cash payment, bonus, any ad-ditional consideration and what, in the sole discretion of the Mineral Board, is in the best interest of the State, and that bid (referred to as “Bid A”) will be given priority in having a lease issued. The State Mineral and Energy Board will also indicate the acceptability of other portion bids on the same tract, if any, in the order of their acceptance (referred to respectively as “Bid B”, “Bid C”, etc.). Once the plat of “Bid A” ‘s portion has been rendered as ac-curately as possible, “Bid B” will be contacted and given an option to take a lease on the remaining portion of his portion bid acreage not overlapping “Bid A” ‘s bid portion, at “Bid B’ ‘s per acre bid price (both as to bonus and rental); and thereafter, each successive bidder whose bid is otherwise ac-ceptable will be given the option to take a lease on whatever portion remains of his portion bid acreage at his respective per acre bid price, less and except any prior portion bid acreage on which the successful bidder has opted to take a lease.

NOTE: If you require ac-commodations due to a disability in order to attend or participate in a meeting, please notify the Office of Mineral Resources at P.O. Box 2827, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-2827 or 225-342-4606 at least two (2) working days before the meeting date.

NOTE: DEEPWELL INCEN-TIVE: It is important for the continued prosperity and welfare of the people of the state of Louisiana, that the state promote the continued growth and development of the mineral resources of the state of Louisiana. It is the intention of this notice to inform the bidders of the economic incentives al-lowed by state law in order to enhance mineral production to the ultimate benefit of the state. In accordance with the provisions of LA R.S. 47§633(9)(d)(v), Louisiana law allows the suspension of severance tax on the production of natural gas, gas condensate, and oil from any well drilled to a true vertical depth of more than fifteen thousand (15,000) feet, where the production commenced after July 31, 1994. The severance tax exemption shall start from the date of production for twenty-four months or until payout of the well cost, whichever comes first. In addition to this Severance Tax Provision, please refer to other applicable statutes, such as LA R.S. 47§633, 47§633.4 and 30§127.1 for other incentives allowed by Louisiana law.INLAND TRACTS (Tract Nos. 44324 through 44325 inclusive, herein) are those tracts which lie landward of the Louisiana shoreline as defined by the report of the Special Master in the litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States styled United States v. State of Louisiana, et al, No. 9 Original and set out in the June 1975, Decree of the said Supreme Court. All bids on inland tracts cannot specify a lease primary term exceeding three (3) years. Bids that specify a primary term exceeding three (3) years for an inland tract may be rejected outright or the primary term changed to three (3) years at the sole discretion of the State Mineral and Energy Board.

TRACT 44324 - Lincoln Parish, Louisiana

iron pipe; thence North 60 degrees 16 minutes 00 sec-onds West 463.29 feet to a one and a half inch iron pipe; thence North 01 degrees 04 minutes 49 seconds West 739.86 feet to a one and a half inch iron pipe on the Southwesterly right of way line of McDonald Avenue; thence South 62 degrees 45 minutes 42 seconds East 1,180.00 feet along said right of way line to a one half inch iron rod; thence South 00 degrees 23 minutes 23 seconds East 424.07 feet to the point of beginning, containing approximately 15.569 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. All bearings, distances and coordinates are based on Louisiana Coordinate Sys-tem of 1927, (North or South Zone), where applicable.

NOTE: The above descrip-tion of the Tract nominated for the purpose of acquir-ing a mineral lease or a geophysical agreement has been provided and cor-rected, where required, exclusively by the nominat-ing party. Any mineral lease or geophysical agreement selected from this Tract and awarded by the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall be without war-ranty of any kind, either express, implied or statutory including, but not limited to, title or the implied war-ranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

An error or omission in the nominating party’s Tract description may require that a State mineral lease or geophysical agreement be modified, canceled or abro-gated due to the existence of conflicting leases, operating agreements, private claims or other future obligations or conditions within the Tract described. In such case, however, the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall not be obligated to refund any consideration paid by the Lessee prior to such modification, cancella-tion or abrogation including, but not limited to, bonuses, rentals and royalties.

NOTE: No surface opera-tions or installations allowed on this property.STATE AGENCY TRACTS (Tract Nos. 44326 through 44346 inclusive, herein) all State Agency Tracts are deemed Inland Tracts. In the case of State Agency Lands, which are offered for lease herein, certified checks, cashier’s checks or bank money orders for the Cash Payment bonus accompanying each bid shall be made payable to each respective State Agency with the exception that, if a Sixteenth Section, or part thereof, which is located in a township which is situated in more than one parish is offered for lease, the certified check, cashier’s check or bank money order for the full amount of the Cash Payment bonus shall be made payable to the STATE TREASURER. In all cases, the ten percent (10%) fee shall be paid by separate check made out to the Office of Mineral Re-sources. Any amendments, assignments or other agree-ments entered into after the State Mineral and Energy Board has awarded the State Agency Lease shall thereafter be approved by the respective State Agency or Agencies, not the State Mineral and Energy Board. Act 289 of the Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature established a minimum royalty of not less than one sixth (1/6) for all leases affecting School Board lands.

TRACT 44326 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bottoms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not presently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, be-ing more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,945,377.18 and Y = 695,152.32; thence East 9,240.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,963,617.18 and Y = 695,152.32; thence South 11,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,963,617.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence West 9,240.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,945,377.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence North 11,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.410 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Donation, dated March 18, 2003, recorded under Entry No. 045777, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

et al. and West by Hickory Ridge Estates. Said tract or parcel of land is further described in that certain Deed dated March 3, 1973, recorded in Conveyance Book 165, Page 364, under Registry Number C83062 in the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.158 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Dona-tion, dated April 27, 2005, recorded under Entry No. F66235, of the Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.420 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, being more particularly de-scribed as Lot 36C of North Highland Subdivision, Unit 2, of The City of Ruston, as per plat map on file of record in Conveyance Book 1172, page 207, of the records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Sale Deed, dated June 22, 2005, recorded under Entry No. F65853, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 8.950 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Warranty Deed dated May 19, 1951, recorded in Conveyance Book 40, Page 109, under Registry Number N-105706 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.The above tracts contain ap-proximately 12.938 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4).NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.

five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.

NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to discover oil and/or gas.NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.

NOTE: Lessee shall be responsible to Lessor for all damages to the leased premises caused by Les-see’s operations, including, but not limited to, damages to roads, artificial or natural drains, utilities, and all other improvements on said land.

NOTE: It is agreed and understood that this lease specifically covers and includes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby understood between LES-SOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be pro-duced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid min-erals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those nec-essarily associated with the production of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises regardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a sepa-rate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor expressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such operations shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordi-nate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.

without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.

NOTE: After the expiration of the primary term of this Lease, in no event shall Les-see’s rights be extended by the payment of shut-in gas royalty as allowed under the terms of this Lease and without drilling operations or production of oil, gas or other liquid hydrocarbons for more than two (2) con-secutive years. In addition, any such shut-in royalty payments paid to Lessor shall be at the rate of $2.50 per net mineral acre.

NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture, dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.

NOTE: If Lessor becomes legally obligated to inves-tigate, remove, clean up, remediate or otherwise expend funds as a result of the Lessee’s activities under this Lease, Lessee agrees that it will promptly perform such investigation, clean up or remediation activities at its sole cost, risk and ex-pense upon written request from the Lessor. Lessor’s royalty herein shall be free of all charges and costs whatsoever including but not limited to, production, compression, cleaning, dehydration, metering, de-toxification, transportation, accounting, and marketing; except that Lessor’s royalty will be responsible for its pro rata share of all taxes imposed on severance or production by any munici-pal, parish, state or federal agency.

NOTE: Once a well is com-pleted and gas, oil or other products are produced, with any portion of said lands under this lease being included in the unit, Lessor shall begin to receive royalty payments not later than 120 days from the date of the first sale of said products. Any delay in the payment of royalty from production for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days will result in interest due the Lessor at the rate of one and one-half (1 _) percent per month.

Prospective bidders must be in compliance with Execu-tive Order 12549, pertaining to Disbarment and Suspen-sion, and implemented at 34 CFR Part 85, for prospec-

BATON ROUGE, LOUISI-ANA 70821

Act 449 of the 2005 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature requires that a prospective lease holder for a State mineral lease be registered with the Of-fice of Mineral Resources. Registration with the Of-fice of Mineral Resources consists of filling out the Prospective Leaseholder form and supplying this of-fice with a certificate from the Secretary of State for the State of Louisiana attesting that the prospective lease-holder is in good standing as authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana. UNDERSTAND that being registered for nomination or any other purpose DOES

NOTE: Multiple portion bids on the same tract may be accepted by the State Mineral and Energy Board, even though they overlap. In the case of overlapping por-tion bids on the same tract, each of which is otherwise acceptable to the State, the

All of the lands now or for-merly constituting the beds and bottoms of all water bodies of every nature and description as to which title is vested in the State of Louisiana, together with all islands arising therein and other lands formed by accretion or by reliction, where allowed by law, excepting tax adjudicated lands, and not presently under mineral lease on August 12, 2015, situated in Lincoln Parish, Louisi-ana, and more particularly described as follows: A certain tract of land situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE 1/4 of SW 1/4) of Section 20, T18N R2W, and being more particularly described in that certain deed, dated July 15, 1992, from Ruston Chamber of Commerce, as Vendor, to the Louisiana Military Department and the State Of Louisiana, as Vendees, recorded in C.O.B. 808, Page 180, Entry No. East 52936 of the official records of the Clerk of Court of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana; Said tract being bounded, now or formerly, as follows: Northeast by the Southwesterly right of way of McDonald Avenue and/or SW Paper, Inc.; East by James Davison et ux.; South by Section line and/or Doyle Barham; Southwest by Kenneth Terral; and West by Bernis Williamson. Said tract being more particularly described as follows: From a 4 inch iron pipe marking the Southeast corner of the Southwest quarter of Sec-tion 20, North 89 degrees 51 minutes 25 seconds West 331.58 feet to a one inch iron pipe and the point of beginning; thence South 89 degrees 31 minutes 00 seconds West 635.82 feet to a one and a half inch

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.00 acres, more or less, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing bounded North, East, South by Shelby Roger,

NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of

NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be

NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then


the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.

NOTE: All gas and liquid hydrocarbons shall be mea-sured and paid for using the same standards and factors required by the Louisiana Department of Revenue.

NOTE: This Lease is grant-ed without any covenant of title or warranty of title of any kind whatsoever, expressed or implied, and without any recourse against the Lessor in the event of any failure of title, not even for the return of the consideration paid here for or any shut-in payments or royalties paid hereunder.

NOTE: To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend Lessor (and Lessor’s heirs, assigns, and legal representatives) from any and all losses, damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs, injuries, loss of life, expenses, claims and causes of action of whatsoever nature and howsoever caused includ-ing injury or death to persons or damages to property, (including without limitation, legal fees and expenses in-curred in defending same or in enforcing this indemnity), resulting or arising from or incurred in connection with any operations by Lessee on the leased premises.

NOTE: This Lease may be assigned only if the as-signee agrees in writing to assume all of the obligations of Lessee under this Lease. In such event all obligations of this Lease shall remain binding on Lessee unless Lessor specifically agrees to release Lessee from said obligations in writing.

NOTE: If, in the event of production, a division order is circulated by Lessee or by purchaser of production, such division order will be a simple statement of interest containing no warranty or indemnity clause and con-taining no clauses modifying in any way the terms of this lease. Lessor shall not be obligated to execute such division order but may ac-knowledge receipt of said division order to Lessee.


Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bo-cage Place, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Bold Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bonaparte Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bon-ner Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bordeaux Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Boyce Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Briarhill Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bri-arwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Broadway Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Brookhaven Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 3, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Brooks Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Brookwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Calcote Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Camp Avenue, located in

Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ever-ett Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Fairview Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Farmerville Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Fisher Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Florida Av-enue (East AND West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Forest Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Forest Creek Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Foxwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Fra-zier Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 1, 11 and 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Garr Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Gains Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Geor-gia Avenue (West), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Sections 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Glen-dale Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Glenwood Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Goodwin Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Goode Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Gordon Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Goyne Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 22, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Green Mountain Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 1, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Greenbriar Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Greenwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Greer Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 10, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hazel Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hidden Cove Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 1, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hid-den Valley Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 1, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, High Pointe Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 1, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hillside Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hom-er Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Honey-suckle Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Howard Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Huey Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hun-dred Oaks Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, James Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jefferson Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 2, 3, 10 and 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jena Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jewel Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Kavanaugh Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 10, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ken-non Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Kentucky Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Knowles Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lake Shore Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lamar Av-enue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lau-ra Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lee Avenue, located in the

City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Lewis Alley, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lexington Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lily Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lisa Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 14 and 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Llanfair Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Sections 11 and 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Llangeler Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Louanne Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Louisiana Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lovers Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Madera Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Maple Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Marcus Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Marie Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Maryland Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, McQuay Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Me-lissa Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Melody Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 12 Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Melton Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Memorial Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mesa Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mi-mosa Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Minden Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mississippi Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Misty Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 10, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Monroe Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Monterey Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Monticello Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 2, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mo-reland Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 2 and 3, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Morrison Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Moss Hill Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mossy Knoll Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Myrtle Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Nor-ma-Ray Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, North Forty Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 1 and 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, North-wood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Northwood Place, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Oak Park Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Oil Mill Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Old Creek Road, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Orleans Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Park Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pelican Blvd., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pen-nington Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Penny Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-

siana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pinecrest Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pinecrest Drive (North), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pine Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pintail Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 13 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Quail Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ragan Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rail-road Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Red-wood Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Reynolds Drive (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 13 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rhody Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ridge Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ridgemont Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 3, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rita Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 14 and 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Rosalie Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rosemont Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Roy-al Oaks Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Sandy Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Scott Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sherwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Snowden Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sortor Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 11 and 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Soyars Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 11 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sparta Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Spears Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Spen-cer Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Spring Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Standifer Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sunset Blvd., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Savannah Trace, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sweetbriar Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 3, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sybil Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Tanglewood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Tara Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Tar-reyton Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Texas Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Toma Lodge Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 11 and 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Turner Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Valley Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ventura Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ver-non Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Vienna Street (North), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Virginia Street (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Vista Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Wales Ct., located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range

3 West, Wedgewood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 14 and 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, West-ern Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Whispering Pines Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Willow Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Willow Glen, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Winchester Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Woodburn Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 2, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Woodhaven Road (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 11 and 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Wynnwood Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 13 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and Zephyr Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, LESS AND EXCEPT all that por-tion of State Lease No. 21565 that lies within the above described tract, con-taining approximately 349.0 acres, all as more particu-larly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on in-formation provided by the State Agency regarding lo-cation and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4).NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.

NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.

one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to discover oil and/or gas.NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.



Lease, in no event shall Les-see’s rights be extended by the payment of shut-in gas royalty as allowed under the terms of this Lease and without drilling operations or production of oil, gas or other liquid hydrocarbons for more than two (2) con-secutive years. In addition, any such shut-in royalty payments paid to Lessor shall be at the rate of $2.50 per net mineral acre.




NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.







the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Canard Ct., located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Sections 13 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Caro-lina Avenue (East AND West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 23 and 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Carriage Way, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cassidy Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ce-lebrity Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Center Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Chantilly Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Chau-tauqua Road (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 11 and 14, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Chase Lane, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Christopher Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 10, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Church Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 14, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Claiborne Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, College Hill Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Colvin Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cook Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cook-town Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Corley Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cottonwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cous-hatta Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Creekwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Daffodil Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dau-phine Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Dayton Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Desiree Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dixie Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dur-den Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Edwards Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Elizabeth Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ellis Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 22, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Eugene Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Evans

A certain Tract of land, ex-cluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,942,472.38 and Y = 694,904.43; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 694,904.43; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 676,424.43; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,942,472.38 and Y = 676,424.43; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows: being Ada Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Alabama Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Aldredge Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Alexander Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Arabella Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Arcadia Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 10, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Arkansas Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Arnold Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ash-land Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 15, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Aspen Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Audubon Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 11, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Aza-lea Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Baldwin Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bearcat Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Belcara Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Belle Haven Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Bittersweet Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 15, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Blondin Drive, located in the City of

NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within

NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.


A certain Tract of land, ex-cluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 692,221.43; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,979,432.38 and Y = 692,221.43; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,979,432.38 and Y = 673,741.43; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 673,741.43; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows: being Alpine Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Atkins Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 17 and 18, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Avon Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Barksdale Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Bea-con Light Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 20 and 29, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Beauregard Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Ber-nard Street (North AND South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 24 and 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bernice Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Biltmore Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Bour-bon Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Brewster Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Bular Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Burgessville Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cali-fornia Avenue (East), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Campbell Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Canal Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cart-wright Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Catalpa Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cedar Creek Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cedar Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Ce-lebrity Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Chase Lane, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Circle Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Clay Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Commerce Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Com-mons Ct., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Decatur Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Eagle Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Eastland Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Edgewood Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, English Turn, NOTE: After the expiration

of the primary term of this


located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Esplanade Blvd., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Fair-field Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Foxx Creek Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Foxwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Fran-ke Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 19 and 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Goodwin Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 12 and 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Highland Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Hill Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Hodges Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Hos-pitality Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Hummingbird Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Hunt Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Illinois Av-enue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Indi-ana Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Industrial Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Johnathan Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, John-ston Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Kentucky Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 12 and 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Kenwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lafayette Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lam-oyne Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Laura Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lewis Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Line Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Link Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Mag-azine Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Marbury Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Marie Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, McAl-lister Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, McDonald Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 24 and 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Sections 19 and 20, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Mississippi Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Mon-rovia Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Monterey Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Morgan Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Nan-cy Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Neal Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 24, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Ohio Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Orleans Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pine-haven Circle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Poe Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ponder Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Post Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Post Oak Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated

in Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Quit-man Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Rampart Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Road Camp Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Ro-berta Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Rosalie Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Santiam Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 19 and 20, Town-ship 18 North, Range 2 West, Second Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Service Road (North East), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Tarreyton Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Trade Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 18, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Troy Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Vic-toria Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 13, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Willow Glen, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Woodland Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Woodlawn Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, and Wyoming Av-enue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana, containing approximately 165.7 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Min-eral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding lo-cation and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4). NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.




Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such royalty in kind in order to escape defray-ing the entire cost of such producing, gathering, stor-ing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is spe-cifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.





NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.NOTE: All gas and liquid hydrocarbons shall be mea-sured and paid for using the same standards and factors required by the Louisiana Department of Revenue.

for or any shut-in payments or royalties paid hereunder.

NOTE: To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend Lessor (and Lessor’s heirs, assigns, and legal rep-resentatives) from any and all losses, damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs, injuries, loss of life, expenses, claims and causes of action of whatsoever nature and howsoever caused including injury or death to persons or damages to property, (including without limitation, legal fees and expenses incurred in defending same or in enforcing this indemnity), resulting or arising from or incurred in connection with any operations by Lessee on the leased premises.



TRACT 44330 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish Police Jury on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land containing 17.839 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Coopera-tive Endeavor Agreement, dated October 8, 2012 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1318, Page 635, under Entry No. F-126806, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 15.4 acres, more or less, being situated in the North Half of the Southeast Quarter (N/2 of SE/4) of Section 7, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that cer-tain Cash Sale Deed, dated June 21, 1974, recorded under Entry No. C-88621, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above tracts total 33.239 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.



without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.





However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TRACT 44331 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish Police Jury on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,949,336.93 and Y = 689,609.09; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,967,816.93 and Y = 689,609.09; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,967,816.93 and Y = 671,129.09; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,949,336.93 and Y = 671,129.09; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.070 acres, more or less, situated in the North West Quarter of South East Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being the same prop-erty described in that certain Conveyance Deed, dated June 27, 2011 recorded under Entry No. F-118369, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.550 acres, more or less, situated in the North West Quarter of South East Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. Said being the same property described in that certain Conveyance Deed, dated June 27, 2011 recorded under Entry No. F-118369, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 4.813 acres, more or less, being a Portion of Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 110 of the Stubb’s Addition, a subdivision of the Town of Ruston and a Portion of Lots 1 and 4, Block 25 of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, located in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4), Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Loui-siana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated March 24, 1998, recorded in Conveyance Book 1018, Page 100, under Registry Number F-3263, LESS AND EXCEPT: 1.144 acres conveyed at Book 1148, Page 828, under Registry Number F-49026 and LESS AND EXCEPT: 1.379 acres conveyed at Book 1310, Page 88, under Registry Number F-122407 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisi-ana. Leaving a balance of 2.29 acres, more or less, described herein.

dated October 26, 2004, recorded in Conveyance Book 1166, Page 154, under Registry Number F-59732 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.413 acres, more or less, identi-fied as Lots 4, 5, 6, 15, and 16 of Block G of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed dated August 14, 1990, recorded in Conveyance Book 721, Page 282, under Registry Number E-40734 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.172 acres, more or less, identi-fied as Lot 16 of Block E of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale dated April 28, 1981, recorded in Conveyance Book 330, Page 296, under Registry Number D-34220 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.207 acres, more or less, identified as Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11 of Block E of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed dated December 19, 1983, recorded in Conveyance Book 455, Page 108, under Registry Number D-52955 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.207 acres, more or less, identified as Lots 5, 6 and 7 of Block E of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed dated December 23, 1996, recorded in Conveyance Book 974, Page 46, under Registry Number E-86030 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.330 acres, more or less, identified as Lots 10, 11, 12, and a part of Lot 9 of Block D of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury and the City of Rus-ton. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale dated February 1, 1907, recorded in Conveyance Book W, Page 4 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.860 acres, more or less, located in the Town of Ruston and situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed dated April 14, 1950, recorded in Conveyance Book 37, Page 143, under Registry Number N-95904 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 5.003 acres, more or less, situated in the West Half of the Northwest Quarter (W/2 of NW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed dated February 6, 2003, recorded in Conveyance Book 1141, Page 695, under Registry Number F-44416 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.11 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Credit Deed, dated July 28, 1971 and recorded in Conveyance Book 151, Page 442, under Entry No. C-75410, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.121 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated Au-gust 8, 1964 and recorded in Conveyance Book 103, Page 670, under Entry No. C-47351, of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.



NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost in-curred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, sepa-rating, treating, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, ac-counting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole exception that Les-sor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value re-ceived by Lessee from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee.

NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether


NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 2.066 acres, more or less, identi-fied as all of Block 7 of the Town of Ruston, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish Police Jury. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Cash Sale

NOTE: This Lease is grant-ed without any covenant of tit le or warranty of title of any kind whatso-ever, expressed or implied, and without any recourse against the Lessor in the event of any failure of title, not even for the return of the consideration paid here

NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.126 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter of Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in


that certain Quitclaim Deed, dated October 24, 1957 and recorded in Conveyance Book 241, Page 25, under Entry No. D-17249, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.172 acres, more or less, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Loui-siana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated September 21, 1954 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 48, Page 93, under Entry No. N-128078, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.55 acres, more or less, situated in the East half of the Southwest Quarter (E/2 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Judgment of Possession, dated November 20, 1998 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 1041, Page 324, under Entry No. F-8843, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.29 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed, dated January 19, 1968 and recorded in Conveyance Book 127, Page 137, under Entry No. C-60992, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.126 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Loui-siana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated NA* and recorded in Conveyance Book 713, Page 306, under Entry No. E-35905, of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.13 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Credit Deed, dated February 20, 1954 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 46, Page 499, under Entry No. N-124635, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 2.185 acres, more or less, situated in the East Half of the Southwest Quarter (E/2 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Ruston Loui-siana Hospital Company, LLC. This being the same property described in that certain Exchange Deed dated September 27, 1961, recorded in Conveyance Book 84, Page 509, under Registry Number C-31508 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.380 acres, more or less, identi-fied as Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Block H, and duly recorded in Block B, in the Ruston City Blocks, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Cash Sale dated February 18, 1885, recorded in Con-veyance Book A, Page 33 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, also in that certain Cash Sale dated January 11, 1892, recorded in Convey-ance Book J, Page 495 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and in that Cash Sale dated April 25, 1903, recorded in Conveyance Book S, Page 495 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above tracts total 19.358 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).NOTE: The above descrip-tion of the Tract nominated for the purpose of acquir-ing a mineral lease or a geophysical agreement has been provided and cor-rected, where required, exclusively by the nominat-ing party. Any mineral lease or geophysical agreement selected from this Tract and awarded by the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall be without war-ranty of any kind, either express, implied or statutory including, but not limited to, title or the implied war-ranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.


An error or omission in the nominating party’s Tract description may require that a State mineral lease or geophysical agreement be modified, canceled or abro-gated due to the existence of conflicting leases, operating

agreements, private claims or other future obligations or conditions within the Tract described. In such case, however, the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall not be obligated to refund any consideration paid by the Lessee prior to such modification, cancella-tion or abrogation including, but not limited to, bonuses, rentals and royalties.

NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4). NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.


NOTE: Lessee shall be responsible to Lessor for all damages to the leased premises caused by Les-see’s operations, including, but not limited to, damages to roads, artificial or natural drains, utilities, and all other improvements on said land.NOTE: It is agreed and understood that this lease specifically covers and includes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby understood between LES-SOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be pro-duced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved

to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid min-erals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those nec-essarily associated with the production of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises regardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a sepa-rate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor expressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such operations shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordi-nate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.



NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture, dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.NOTE: If Lessor becomes legally obligated to inves-tigate, remove, clean up, remediate or otherwise expend funds as a result of the Lessee’s activities under this Lease, Lessee agrees that it will promptly perform such investigation, clean up or remediation activities at its sole cost, risk and ex-pense upon written request from the Lessor. Lessor’s royalty herein shall be free of all charges and costs whatsoever including but not limited to, production, compression, cleaning, dehydration, metering, de-toxification, transportation, accounting, and marketing; except that Lessor’s royalty will be responsible for its pro rata share of all taxes imposed on severance or production by any munici-pal, parish, state or federal agency.








TRACT 44332 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish School Board on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,945,009.44 and Y = 688,748.52; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,963,489.44 and Y = 688,748.52; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,963,489.44 and Y = 670,268.52; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,945,009.44 and Y = 670,268.52; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.284 acres, more or less, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Boundary Agreement dated Janu-ary 15, 2004, recorded in Conveyance Book 1155, Page 736, under Registry Number 053364 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Louisiana. That certain tract or parcel of land containing 27.420 acres, more or less, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Option dated August 2, 1938, recorded in Conveyance Book 13, Page 270, under Registry Number N32963 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Par-ish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

Parish School Board, being bounded on the North by Connor Reeves, bounded on the West by Jonathan Edwards, LLC, bounded on the East by James Street and bounded on the South by Lincoln Parish School Board. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Cash Sale of Immovable Property, dated September 29, 2009, recorded in Conveyance Book 1277, Page 332, under Registry Number F107276 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 11.880 acres, more or less, situated in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that Do-nation dated November 28, 1936, recorded in Donation Book A, Page 238, under Registry Number N-26994 and Correction Deed dated October 23, 1939, recorded in Conveyance Book 15, Page 180, Registry Number N38632 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Par-ish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.170 acres, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Deed dated No-vember 5, 1953, recorded in Conveyance Book 46, Page 89, under Registry Number N-123050 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.013 acres, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Deed dated, August 1, 1938, recorded in Conveyance Book 13, Page 281, under Registry Number N-33028 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Par-ish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 2.90 acres being Lots 4, 5, 6 of Block 16 and Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 ,11, 12 of Block 17 in Washington Heights Subdivision, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further described in that certain Deed, dated April 8, 1942, recorded in Convey-ance Book 18, Page 640, under of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Par-ish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.100 acres, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana also known as Lot 7, Block 16 of Washington Heights Addition. This being the same property described in that certain Deed dated August 30, 1945, recorded in Conveyance Book 24, Page 245, under Registry Number N-65252 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 11.60 acres, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana being situated in the South-west Quarter (SW/4) of the Southeast (SE/4) of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further described in that certain Cash Sale Deed and Ordinance dated Feb-ruary 16, 1954, recorded in Conveyance Book 46, Page 574, under Registry Number N-124895 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.172 acres, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Deed dated October 5, 1953, recorded in Conveyance Book 46, Page 35, under Registry Number N-122767 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 4.67 acres, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Block 11, of Washington Heights Subdivision, a subdivision of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, located in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4), Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana per plat and map thereof on file and of record in Conveyance Book 1 at Page 22, records of the Clerk of Court of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Deed, dated November 7, 1940, recorded in Convey-ance Book 16, Page 476, under Registry Number N-44002 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.784 acres, more or less, being situated in Lots #78, 79, 93, and 94 of the D.E. O’Neal Subdivision in Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by Lincoln

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.340 acres, more or less, being Lots 4 and 5, of Block 9, of Washington Heights Subdi-vision, a subdivision of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, located in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4), Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Loui-siana, and being further de-scribed in that certain Cash Deed, dated August 2, 1948, recorded in Conveyance Book 33, Page 427, under Registry Number N-84840 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 10.00 acres, more or less. Situated in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Cash Deed dated December 5, 1961, recorded in Conveyance Book 85, Page 619, Reg-istry Number C-32632 of the Clerk of Courts office, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.3000 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Sec-tion 26, Township 8 North Range 3 West and being the Southern portion of Lot 6 of the Baxter Subdivision. This being the same property described in that certain Deed dated August 3, 1971, recorded in Conveyance Book 151, Page 582 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.280 acres, more or less, situated in the Northwest Corner of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NWC of NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Warranty Deed, dated October 29, 1962 and recorded in Conveyance Book 92, Page 21, under Entry No. C-38593 and that certain Warranty Deed, dated October 29, 1962 and recorded in Conveyance Book 92, Page 22, under Entry No. C-38594, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 15.00 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of the Southwest Quar-ter (SW/4) of Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and being further described in Conveyance Book 83, Page 323 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.1856 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Donation Deed dated September 6, 1968, recorded in Donation Book B, Page 470 of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 11.682 acres, more or less, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 OF SE/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Lincoln Parish School Board. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed dated December 2, 1987, re-corded in Conveyance Book 638, Page 124, under Registry Number E-23713 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 4.500 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NE/4 of NW/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by Lincoln Parish School Board. This being the same property de-scribed in that certain Cash Sale dated December 12, 1923, recorded in Convey-ance Book QQ, Page 423, under Registry Number A-3856 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 7.40 acres, more or less, being Lots 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82 and 83 of The Roberts Place, a subdivision of Ruston, and situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further iden-tified in that certain Deed dated February 13, 1954 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 46, Page 470, Entry No. N124532, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above description totals 110.681 acres, more or less, all as more particu-larly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).NOTE: The above descrip-tion of the Tract nominated for the purpose of acquir-ing a mineral lease or a geophysical agreement has been provided and cor-rected, where required, exclusively by the nominat-ing party. Any mineral lease or geophysical agreement selected from this Tract and awarded by the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall be without war-ranty of any kind, either express, implied or statutory including, but not limited to, title or the implied war-ranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

modified, canceled or abro-gated due to the existence of conflicting leases, operating agreements, private claims or other future obligations or conditions within the Tract described. In such case, however, the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall not be obligated to refund any consideration paid by the Lessee prior to such modification, cancella-tion or abrogation including, but not limited to, bonuses, rentals and royalties. NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4). NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.



An error or omission in the nominating party’s Tract description may require that a State mineral lease or geophysical agreement be

NOTE: It is agreed and understood that this lease specifically covers and includes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby understood between LES-SOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be pro-duced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein

is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid min-erals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those nec-essarily associated with the production of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises regardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a sepa-rate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor expressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such operations shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordi-nate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.



NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture, dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.NOTE: If Lessor becomes legally obligated to inves-tigate, remove, clean up, remediate or otherwise expend funds as a result of the Lessee’s activities under this Lease, Lessee agrees that it will promptly perform such investigation, clean up or remediation activities at its sole cost, risk and ex-pense upon written request from the Lessor. Lessor’s royalty herein shall be free of all charges and costs whatsoever including but not limited to, production, compression, cleaning, dehydration, metering, de-toxification, transportation, accounting, and marketing; except that Lessor’s royalty will be responsible for its pro rata share of all taxes

imposed on severance or production by any munici-pal, parish, state or federal agency.

NOTE: Once a well is com-pleted and gas, oil or other products are produced, with any portion of said lands under this lease being included in the unit, Lessor shall begin to receive royalty payments not later than 120 days from the date of the first sale of said products. Any delay in the payment of royalty from production for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days will result in interest due the Lessor at the rate of one and one-half (1 _) percent per month.NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TRACT 44333 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bottoms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not presently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish School Board on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.230 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of the SW/4) of Section 12, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified as the South 50 feet of Lot No. 38 and the North 10 feet of Lot No. 39, all in Unit 3 of North-wood Terrace Subdivision, a subdivision of Ruston, Louisiana, as per plat and map recorded in COB 88, Page 72, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated October 14, 1965, recorded in COB 111, Page 634, under Entry No. C52157 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 15.00 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of the SW/4) of Section 12 Township 18 North, Range 3 West Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in that certain Deed dated January 30, 1961, recorded in Convey-ance Book 80, Page 103 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above description totals 15.23 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and



coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).

NOTE: The above descrip-tion of the Tract nominated for the purpose of acquir-ing a mineral lease or a geophysical agreement has been provided and cor-rected, where required, exclusively by the nominat-ing party. Any mineral lease or geophysical agreement selected from this Tract and awarded by the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall be without war-ranty of any kind, either express, implied or statutory including, but not limited to, title or the implied war-ranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.An error or omission in the nominating party’s Tract description may require that a State mineral lease or geophysical agreement be modified, canceled or abro-gated due to the existence of conflicting leases, operating agreements, private claims or other future obligations or conditions within the Tract described. In such case, however, the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall not be obligated to refund any consideration paid by the Lessee prior to such modification, cancella-tion or abrogation including, but not limited to, bonuses, rentals and royalties.




understood that this lease specifically covers and includes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby understood between LES-SOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be pro-duced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid min-erals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those nec-essarily associated with the production of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises regardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a sepa-rate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor expressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such operations shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordi-nate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.



attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.







NOTE: This Lease may be assigned only if the as-signee agrees in writing to assume all of the obligations of Lessee under this Lease. In such event all obligations of this Lease shall remain binding on Lessee unless Lessor specifically agrees to release Lessee from said obligations in writing.NOTE: If, in the event of production, a division order is circulated by Lessee or by purchaser of production, such division order will be a simple statement of interest containing no warranty or indemnity clause and con-taining no clauses modifying in any way the terms of this lease. Lessor shall not be obligated to execute such division order but may ac-knowledge receipt of said division order to Lessee.

TRACT 44334 - Lincoln and Ouachita Parishes, Louisiana

NOTE: It is agreed and

NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture, dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s

A certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Ouachita Parish Police Jury on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.413 acres, more or less, being in the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 32, Township 18 North, Range 1 East. From the Southwest corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 32, go North 98.44 feet, East 313 feet, North 855.89 feet, and East 30 feet to the Point of Beginning, thence East 108 feet, North 162.4 feet, West 108 feet and South 163.48 feet back to the Point of Beginning (BK 1739/117, 2038/361, 2088/787), all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based

on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4).

NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.

NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.


NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to discover oil and/or gas.

NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.

NOTE: Lessee shall be responsible to Lessor for all damages to the leased premises caused by Les-

see’s operations, including, but not limited to, damages to roads, artificial or natural drains, utilities, and all other improvements on said land.



NOTE: After the expiration of the primary term of this Lease, in no event shall Les-see’s rights be extended by the payment of shut-in gas royalty as allowed under the terms of this Lease and without drilling operations or production of oil, gas or other liquid hydrocarbons for more than two (2) con-secutive years. In addition, any such shut-in royalty payments paid to Lessor shall be at the rate of $2.50 per net mineral acre.NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture, dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s

failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.









TRACT 44335 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bottoms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not presently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, be-ing more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,943,137.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,961,617.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,961,617.18 and Y = 665,192.32; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,943,137.18 and Y = 665,192.32; thence North

18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.206 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Dona-tion, dated May 14, 2004, recorded under Entry No. 056065, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.026 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Dedi-cation and Conveyance, dated September 13, 2010, recorded under Entry No. F113631, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.059 acres, more or less, being situated on the Centerline of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Act of Dedication and Conveyance Deed, dated July 6, 2010, recorded under Entry No. F113630, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.135 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Donation of Servitude Deed, dated March 8, 1990, recorded under Entry No. E38404, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 7.666 acres, more or less, situated in the NE/4 Section 21, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Sale dated April 3, 2013, recorded in Conveyance Book 1326, Page 242, under Registry Number E131132 in the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.213 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identi-fied in that certain Act of Exchange with Donation of Servitude, dated August 2, 1993, recorded under Entry No. E60788, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 2.92422 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identi-fied in that certain Deed, dated January 10, 1972, recorded under Entry No. C77294, Less and Except 1.217 acres, described in that certain Act of Exchange with Donation of Servitude dated August 2, 1993, recorded under Entry No. E60788 of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Leaving a balance of 1.70722 acres, more or less, leased herein.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.130 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated April 16, 1992, recorded under Entry No. E51472, Less and Except 0.088 acres, further identi-fied in that certain Sale, dated November 2, 1998, recorded under Entry No. 008856, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.130 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Cash Sale Deed, dated October 22, 1999, recorded under Entry No. 016629, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.960 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Cor-rection Deed, dated March 26, 1974, recorded under Entry No. C87303, of the

Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.185 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Cash Deed dated September 2, 1941, recorded in Conveyance Book 18, Page 92, under Registry Number N-49682 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.550 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified as Lot 2, Lot 3 and a portion of Lot 6, of Block V, of the Town of Ruston. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Sale, dated November 5, 2004, recorded under Entry No. 059887, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.090 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified as Lots 13 and 16, of Block O, of the Town of Ruston Subdivision. Said tract being further identified in that certain Deed, dated January 8, 1970, recorded under Entry No. C69173, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 2.78 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified as all of Square No. 20, of the Town of Ruston Subdivision. Said tract being further identified in that certain Deed, dated April 30, 1965, recorded under Entry No. C50283, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.269 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Sale Deed, dated May 13, 2005, in COB 1175, Page 41, recorded under Entry No. F64589, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.029 acres, more or less, being a portion in Northwest corner of Lot 3, Block 112 of the Stubb’s Addition, a subdivision of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, located in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Quitclaim Deed and Right-Of-Way Grant, dated March 27, 1998, recorded in Conveyance Book 1018, Page 104, under Registry Number F-3264 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.740 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified as Lot 2, of Square 21, of The Town of Ruston Subdivi-sion. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Sale, dated December 16, 2008, recorded under Entry No. F101329, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.251 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Judgment of Expropriation, dated De-cember 2, 2011, recorded under Entry No. F121325, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.006 acres, more or less, situated in the NE/4 of NE/4 of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Deed dated November 11, 1986, recorded in Convey-ance Book 600, Page 62, under Registry Number E17248 in the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.006 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Dedica-tion and Conveyance Deed,

dated December 5, 2012, recorded under Entry No. F128427, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.346 acres, more or less, identi-fied as a portion of Block 2 located in the Ruston City Blocks, and situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the City of Ruston. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Cash Sale dated February 2, 1999, recorded in Conveyance Book 1048, Page 267, under Registry Number F-10352 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.480 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Cash Deed dated December 7, 1938, recorded in Conveyance Book 13, Page 639, under Registry Number N-34200 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.450 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Cash Deed dated December 7, 1938, recorded in Conveyance Book 13, Page 639, under Registry Number N-34200 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.241 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Deed, dated January 11, 1977, recorded under Entry No. D3676, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.370 acres, more or less, being the West 74 feet of Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Block 10, of Washington Heights Sub-division, a subdivision of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, located in the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, per plat and map thereof on file and of record in Conveyance Book 1 at Page 22, records of the Clerk of Court of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale, dated April 28, 1976, recorded in Convey-ance Book 196, Page 403, under Registry Number C-97959 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.080 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Act of Dedication, dated November 6, 1986, recorded under Entry No. E17185, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.172 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northeast Corner of the Southeast Quarter (NEC of SE/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Warranty Deed, dated May 10, 1996, recorded under Entry No. 81674, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.060 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SE/4 of NW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Cash Deed dated March 31, 1949, recorded in Conveyance Book 34, Page 400, under Registry Number N-87672 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.190 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NE/4 of NW/4) of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Cash Deed dated March 30, 1949, recorded in Conveyance Book 34, Page 382, under Registry Number N-87578 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 20.190 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SE/4 of NW/4) and situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Sec-tion 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, being



bounded on the North by SJC Land Company, L.L.C. and Lincoln Parish School Board, and bounded to the West by Bradley Walker, Christopher Gordon Gantt, Bryan Deoliviera, Douglas Perry, Donna Williams, Hugh Bernard and Keith Rowe, and bounded to the East by Lincoln Par-ish School Board, Scot Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana t Freeling, Stacey Taylor, Gary Cox, and Char-lotte King, and bounded on the South by Elinor Dean Moseley Harrington, Daniel Flowers, Judith Roberts, Forrest Clayton Peterson, Merrie Calahan Sears and Timothy Morse. This being the same property de-scribed in that certain Act of Sale dated December 16, 2004, recorded in Con-veyance Book 1168, Page 30, under Registry Number F-60831 in the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.300 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Deed, dated April 19, 1966, recorded under Entry No. C45154, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.010 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4) of Section 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated December 3, 1977 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 222, Page 665, under Entry No. D-10143, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 10.00 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Deed, dated January 4, 1982, recorded under Entry No. D39464, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 5.366 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Cash Sale Deed, dated March 11, 2002, recorded under Entry No. 036883, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.261 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Sale, dated December 16, 2010 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1294, Page 249, under Entry No. F115180, of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 15.040 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Sale Deed, dated July 28, 2004, recorded under Entry No. 057651, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 12.170 acres, more or less, being situated in the East half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (E/2 of SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Act of Exchange Deed, dated August 27, 1968, recorded under Entry No. C63703, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 11.619 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Cash Sale Deed, dated August 9, 2001, recorded under Entry No. 031293, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 6.289 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Act of Sale Deed, dated March 3, 2010, recorded under Entry No. F112015, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 4.000 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that cer-tain Exchange Deed dated August 16, 1955, recorded in Conveyance Book 50, Page 399, under Registry Number W-133508 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 15.010 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Warranty Deed dated Oc-tober 27, 1947, recorded in Conveyance Book 30, Page 582, under Registry Number N-77577 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 22.830 acres, more or less, de-scribed by metes and bounds, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further identified in that certain Warranty Deed dated March 14, 1945, recorded in Conveyance Book 23, Page 249, under Registry Number N-63194 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.230 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the Town of Ruston. This being the same property described as: A lot beginning at the Southwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and run North 23’ East 10’ to the East boundary of West line (Now James) St., thence along the East boundary line of West line of street 397’ to the starting point. From starting point run East 191’ to the West line of Spencer Street, thence North approximately 25’ but to the South line of W. Carolina Avenue, thence run West along the South line of W. Carolina Avenue 191’ to the East line of West line (now James) St., thence run South along the East line of the West line (now James St.) approximately 25’ to Starting Point. Also the fol-lowing described property: Beginning at the Southeast corner of the above property and run East to the East line of Spencer Street for a start-ing point. From starting point run East approximately 208.98’ to the West line of Everett Street, thence run North approximately 24’ to the South line of W. Carolina Avenue, thence run West along the South line of W. Caroline Avenue approximately 208.98’ to the East line of Spencer Street, thence run South along the East line of Spencer Street approximately 25’ to the Starting Point.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.002 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Donation, dated December 21, 1987 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 649, Page 138, under Entry No. E-25213 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.103 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, being the Northern portion of Lot 9 of Block “M” of Ruston Blocks according to the original survey of the Town of Ruston filed in the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Par-ish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Cash Deed, dated December 7, 1943, recorded in Conveyance Book 21, Page 259, under Entry No. N-57592 of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.14 acres, more or less, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described as Lots 7 and 8, Block M, in the Town of Ruston, in that certain Deed dated December 29, 1900, recorded in Conveyance Book P, Page 360, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

Entry Number N-79429 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.070 acres, being situated in Lot 6, Block M of the Town of Ruston, in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4), in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Assumption Deed, dated November 3, 1903 and recorded in Conveyance Book T, Page 75, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.280 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the City of Rus-ton. This tract being further described as: A lot or parcel of land beginning at the Southwest Corner of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and running in an Easterly direction along the North Boundary line of East Mississippi Avenue in Rus-ton, Louisiana, a distance of 413 feet to the Southwest Corner of that certain lot sold by Joe H. Crosby to Lillian M. Shrell on February 16, 1946, recorded in Convey-ance Book 25, page 408 of the records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana; thence running North 210 feet to the Northwest Corner of the said Lillian M. Shrell Lot; thence running East 337 feet for the starting point of the lot herein to be conveyed, and thence from said starting point run-ning East 225 feet; thence North 247 feet to the North-east Corner of that certain lot donated to the Town of Ruston, Louisiana, by Mrs. Maggie Hodges James, et als, on the 5th of February, 1948, in Donation Book A, page 341, of the records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana; thence running West 225 feet; thence South 247 feet to the point of beginning. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Exchange Deed dated March 15, 1948, recorded in Conveyance Book 32, Page 81, under Registry Number N-80706 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.370 acres, more or less, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property de-scribed in that certain Deed dated January 31, 1948, recorded in Conveyance Book 31, Page 411, under Registry Number N-79258 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.003 acres, more or less, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property de-scribed in that certain Act of Donation dated December 14, 1987, recorded in Con-veyance Book 638, Page 303, under Registry Number E23807 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.490 acres, more or less, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed, dated September 13, 1919 and recorded in Convey-ance Book MM, Page 97, under Entry No. 18507 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.043 acres, more or less, being situated in the East Half (E/2) of Sec-tion 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Par-ish, Louisiana, lying North of Georgia Avenue, also known as U.S. Highway 80. Said tract being further identified as Parcel 1-1, con-taining 0.015 acres, more or less, Parcel 1-2, containing 0.023 acres, more or less, and Parcel 1-3, containing 0.005 acres, more or less, in that certain Act of Dedica-tion and Conveyance, dated January 8, 2009, recorded in Conveyance Book 1265, Page 700, under Entry No. F-101781 of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.096 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, owned by the City of Ruston. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Credit Sale dated November 28, 1967, recorded in Con-veyance Book 126, Page 256, under Registry Number C-60515 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 1.250 acres, in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE/4 of SW/4), in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Deed, dated January 31, 1948 and recorded in Con-veyance Book 31, Page 411, under Entry No. N-79259, and that certain Donation, dated February 5, 1948, and recorded in Donation Book A, Page 391 under

A tract or parcel of land, containing 24.28941 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) and Northeast Quar-ter of the Southeast Quarter (NE/4 of SE/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, being a portion of Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West and Blocks G and H, of W. S. Kendall Addition to the Town of Ruston, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed, dated

June 13, 1930 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1, Page 575, under Entry No. B-21614, of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 6.03 acres, more or less, situ-ated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW/4 of NE/4) and the Northwest Quarter of Southeast Quarter (NW/4 of SE/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Cash Sale dated February 2, 1954 and recorded in Conveyance Book 46, Page 417, under Entry No. N-124382, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. LESS AND EXCEPT a 5.5 acre tract of land described in that certain Act of Cash Sale dated December 13, 1994 and recorded in Con-veyance 903, Page 155, under Entry No. E-71377, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Leaving a balance of 0.53 acres, more or less, leased herein.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.32 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Act of Sale of Immovable Property dated December 19, 1986 and recorded in Conveyance Book 604, Page 222, under Entry No. E-17923, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. LESS AND EXCEPT a 0.08 acre tract of land described in that certain Act of Sale dated January 30, 1995 and recorded in Convey-ance 914, Page 12, under Entry No. E-73074, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Leaving a balance of 0.24 acres, more or less, leased herein.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.059 acres, more or less, being situated on the centerline of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 13, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and be-ing further identified in that certain Act of Dedication and Conveyance Deed, dated July 6, 2010, recorded under Entry No. F113630 of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.50 acres, more or less, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the lot described as being ninety feet by two hundred and forty three feet off the south side of Block 47 of the original plat and survey of the Town of Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, together with all improvements thereon.

Two certain contiguous tracts or parcels, one con-taining 0.962 acres, and one containing 46.118 acres, containing a total of 47.08 acres, more or less, situated in the West Half of the South-east Quarter of Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, lying West of the abandoned Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, owned by the City of Ruston. Said tract being bounded on the North by Latasha A. Walker, et al, Anthony J. Burks, Ella M. Stringfellow, Darlene H. Lightner, James Smith, et al, Bedie Jordan, and Julia Hill; bounded on the East by Hollingsworth Construction Company and Regency Field Services, Inc.; bounded on the South by a Louisiana State Board tract and a State Board of Education tract; bounded on the West by a Lincoln Parish School Board tract, Artis L. Dykes, Jessie Burton, Pinkie C. Smith, et al, Effie Colvin, E. C. Collingsworth, Cora R. Bissic, Bessie Mae Williams, A. W. Willis, et ux, Jessie P. Gill, Jr., Carolyn J. Daniels, et ux, Shelton Dunn, Mary L. Mayfield, et ux, Emma R. Tellis, et al, Kendall Theriot, Marteal D. Davis, Hurshel Rushing, and Virginia H. Amos. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Deed dated Febru-ary 13, 1914, recorded in Conveyance Book Z, Page 448, and that certain Credit Deed dated February 1, 1922, recorded in Convey-ance Book NN, Page 117, under Registry Number 21525 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Less and Except That certain tract or parcel of land containing 11.60 of an acre, more or less, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West beginning at the Southwest Corner of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4). This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale Deed and Ordinance dated Feb-ruary 16, 1954, recorded in Conveyance Book 46, Page 574, under Registry Number N-124895 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Parish Clerk of Court, Ruston, Louisiana. Leaving a balance of 35.48 acres, more or less, de-scribed herein.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 38.0 acres, more or less, being de-scribed as GREENWOOD CEMETERY, being situated in the East Half of Section 23, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being further described in Convey-ance Book H, Page 113; Conveyance Book H, Page 305; Conveyance Book NC,

Page 12; Conveyance Book Q, Page 9; Conveyance Book S, Page 7; Convey-ance Book S, Page 567 and Conveyance Book T, Page 31 of the Conveyance Records of the Lincoln Par-ish Clerk of Court, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above tracts contain approximately 253.7876 acres, all as more particu-larly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to discover oil and/or gas.NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface

to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.





dispose of or release any hazardous materials on, under or about the leased premises, and shall not transport hazardous mate-rials to or from the leased premises in any manner which would violate any applicable environmental laws. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Lessee shall indemnify and hold Lessor harmless from and against all costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limita-tion, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (includ-ing death) which arise out of or are related to Lessee’s failure to comply with this provision. Nevertheless, the preceding indemnification shall not apply to any costs, liabilities, fines, penalties, legal expenses (including, without limitation, Lessor’s attorney fees), damages to property or injuries to persons (including death) which arise out of Lessor’s gross negligence or inten-tional act.









TRACT 44336 - Jack-son and Lincoln Parishes, Louisiana

NOTE: Lessee hereby agrees in exercising the rights granted it under the Lease, it will comply with and be subject to all ap-plicable environmental and other laws and regulations validly adopted or issued by the State of Louisiana or its agencies, or by the United States or its agencies. Les-see further agrees that it will comply with all minimum soil and water quality standards validly adopted by said government authorities with respect to oil pollution and noxious chemicals and waste being introduced into affected water areas. Les-see shall not manufacture,

A certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bottoms of all navigable

waters, belonging to and not presently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, be-ing more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,961,617.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence East 8,000.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,969,617.18 and Y = 683,672.32; thence South 10,000.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,969,617.18 and Y = 673,672.32; thence East 10,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,980,097.18 and Y = 673,672.32; thence South 8,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,980,097.18 and Y = 665,192.32; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,961,617.18 and Y = 665,192.32; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

A tract or parcel of land, containing 21.40 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SEC of SE/4 of SW/4) Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Par-ish, Louisiana, being more particularly described in that certain Resolution and Cash Deed, dated February 11, 1958 and recorded in Con-veyance Book 61, Page 411, under Entry No. C-10410 and the Correction Deed, dated December 18, 1961 and Recorded in Convey-ance Book 86, Page 133, under Entry No. C-32933 of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.4 acres, more or less, being situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/4 of SW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Sale dated January 23, 2004 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1155, Page 640, Entry No. F53306, of the Convey-ance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.29 acres, more or less, beginning at the Northeast Corner in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NE/C of the NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tracts being further identified in that certain Act of Sale dated May 29, 2009 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 1272, Page 554, Entry No. F104959, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.46 acres, more or less, situated in the NEC of Section 32, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Deed dated April 28, 1992, recorded in Conveyance Book 801, Page 220, under Registry Number E51507 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 9.30 acres, more or less, situated in the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW/4 of SW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, being described in that certain Deed dated October 24, 2002, recorded in Conveyance Book 1147, Page 446 of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 55.80 acres, more or less, situ-ated in the West Half (W/2) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, being described in that certain Credit Deed dated January 27, 1934, recorded in Con-veyance Book 6, Page 149 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.011 acres, more or less, being Parcel 2-3 of required property for a proposed street and situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tracts being further identified in that certain Act of Sale and Grant of Servitude dated June 10, 2009 and recorded in Con-veyance Book 1273, Page 479, Entry No. F105417, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.005 acres, more or less, being Parcel 2-1 of required property for a proposed street and situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Sale and Grant of Servitude dated June 3, 2009 and recorded in Con-veyance Book 1272, Page 548, Entry No. F104958, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 3.923 acres, being situated in Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4), in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Exchange Deed,

dated January 10, 1961 and recorded in Conveyance Book 79, Page 498, under Entry No. C-26942 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.018 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, owned by the City of Ruston. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Act of Cash Sale dated June 10, 1985, recorded in Con-veyance Book 534, Page 264, under Registry Number E-7305 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.064 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, owned by the City of Ruston. This being the same prop-erty described in that certain Cash Sale dated September 6, 1968, recorded in Con-veyance Book 132, Page 490, under Registry Number C-63818 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.400 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE/4 of SW/4) of Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Deed dated January 21, 1993 and re-corded in Conveyance Book 826, Page 145, Entry No. E56703 of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.006 acres, more or less, being situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Sale dated November 3, 2010 and recorded in Con-veyance Book 1293, Page 1, Entry No. F114548, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.023 acres, more or less, described by metes and bounds and situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW/4 of NW/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, owned by the City of Rus-ton. This being the same property described in that certain Cash Sale dated May 28, 1945, recorded in Conveyance Book 23, Page 536, under Registry Number N-64189 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and corrected by that certain Correction Deed dated January 5, 1951, recorded in Conveyance Book 39, Page 143, under Registry Number N-102213 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same prop-erty also described in that certain Cash Sale dated June 11, 1945 recorded in Conveyance Book 23, Page 567, under Registry Number N-6430 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and corrected by that certain Correction Deed dated January 5, 1951, recorded in Conveyance Book 39, Page 143, under Registry Number N-102214 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above tracts contain ap-proximately 95.100 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4). NOTE: There shall be a



minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.



the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a separate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor ex-pressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such opera-tions shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordinate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.





NOTE: It is agreed and understood that this lease specifically covers and in-cludes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby un-derstood between LESSOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be produced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid minerals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those necessarily associated with the produc-tion of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises re-gardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from


in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TRACT 44337 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish Police Jury on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,930,515.65 and Y = 681,682.56; thence East 10,600.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,941,115.65 and Y = 681,682.56; thence South 10,600.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,941,115.65 and Y = 671,082.56; thence West 10,600.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,930,515.65 and Y = 671,082.56; thence North 10,600.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows:

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.110 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4 of SE/4) of Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Adjudicated Tax Certificate, dated June 17, 2009 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1273, Page 210, under Entry No. F-105205 and that certain Cash Sale Deed, dated March 22, 2005 and re-corded in Conveyance Book 1173, Page 114, under Entry No. F-63516, of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.110 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 19, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Tax Sale, dated November 25, 2014 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1355, Page 804, under Entry No. F-145437 and that certain Tax Sale Certificate, dated June 17, 2013 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1329, Page 257, under Entry No. F-132622, of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.719 acres, more or less, situated in the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW/4 of SW/4) of Section 20, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Loui-siana. This being the same property described in that certain Tax Sale Certificate, dated June 17, 2013 and

recorded in Conveyance Book 1329, Page 284, under Entry No. F-132636 and that certain Tax Sale, dated November 25, 2014 and recorded in Convey-ance Book 1355, Page 838, under Entry No. F-145471 of the Conveyance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

That certain tract or parcel of land containing 0.500 acres, more or less, situated in the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SE/4 of NE/4) of Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. This being the same property described in that certain Tax Sale Certificate, dated June 17, 2013 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1329, Page 282, under Entry No. F-132635 and that certain Tax Sale, dated November 25, 2014 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1355, Page 839, under Entry No. F-145472 of the Convey-ance Records of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.

The above tracts total 1.439 acres, more or less, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to discover oil and/or gas.

NOTE: The price to be used

NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of

one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.



NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost in-curred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, sepa-rating, treating, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, ac-counting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole exception that Les-sor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value re-ceived by Lessee from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such royalty in kind in order to escape defray-ing the entire cost of such producing, gathering, stor-ing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is spe-cifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.









NOTE: This Lease may be assigned only if the as-signee agrees in writing to assume all of the obligations of Lessee under this Lease. In such event all obligations of this Lease shall remain binding on Lessee unless Lessor specifically agrees to release Lessee from said obligations in writing.NOTE: If, in the event of production, a division order

is circulated by Lessee or by purchaser of production, such division order will be a simple statement of interest containing no warranty or indemnity clause and con-taining no clauses modifying in any way the terms of this lease. Lessor shall not be obligated to execute such division order but may ac-knowledge receipt of said division order to Lessee.

TRACT 44340 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on Au-gust 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land containing, being part of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW/4 of SE/4) of Section 20 and the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW/4 of NE/4) of Section 29, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana and be-ing further identified in that certain Conveyance dated January 6, 1939, recorded in Volume 14, Page 42 of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, containing 80.00 gross surface acres and 40.00 net mineral acres, more or less, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




NOTE: At the end or the primary term or any exten-sion thereof, this lease shall terminate and be of no force and effect as to all depths below the stratigraphic equivalent of a point one hundred (100’) feet below the base of the deepest formation penetrated in any well drilled on the leased premises or on lands pooled therewith; provided, howev-er, if Lessee is then engaged in the actual drilling of a well, this lease shall continue in force as to all acreage cov-ered hereby and it shall not terminate as long as Lessee prosecutes operations with due diligence on said well and, thereafter, commences each succeeding well within one hundred twenty (120) days after the completion date or the date of abandon-ment of each well hereon, and thereafter prosecutes operations with respect thereto with due diligence in a good faith attempt to

discover oil and/or gas.NOTE: Lessee nor Lessee’s successors and assigns nor mineral lessees, shall conduct any operations of any kind that will affect the surface of the Property or subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet which shall specifically ex-clude, but not be exclusively limited to, seismic tests, drilling operations, laying of pipelines, erection of structures and apartments, or ingress and egress from, over, through or across the Property or any operations whatsoever to which Lessee might otherwise be entitled to as the owner of a mineral servitude, it being the intent herein that the Property shall never be subject to any operations of any nature, description and kind by Les-see, Lessee’s successors and assigns and mineral lessees, that would in any manner affect the surface of the Property of subsurface to a depth of one hundred (100’) feet. However, inclu-sion of the Property, or any portion thereof, within any unit or units duly established is permissible and the Prop-erty may be developed by the use of directional drilling beneath the Property from a drill site located on the Property of third parties and a minimum distance of five hundred feet (500’) from the Property.




NOTE: After the expiration of the primary term of this Lease, in no event shall Les-see’s rights be extended by the payment of shut-in gas royalty as allowed under the terms of this Lease and without drilling operations

or production of oil, gas or other liquid hydrocarbons for more than two (2) con-secutive years. In addition, any such shut-in royalty payments paid to Lessor shall be at the rate of $2.50 per net mineral acre.








NOTE: This Lease may be assigned only if the as-signee agrees in writing to assume all of the obligations



of Lessee under this Lease. In such event all obligations of this Lease shall remain binding on Lessee unless Lessor specifically agrees to release Lessee from said obligations in writing.


TRACT 44341 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, ex-cluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,942,472.38 and Y = 676,424.43; thence East 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 676,424.43; thence South 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 657,944.43; thence West 18,480.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,942,472.38 and Y = 657,944.43; thence North 18,480.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows: being Adams Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Allen Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 26 and 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Arizona Avenue (East & West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ar-lington Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Arthur Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ash Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ball Park Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bar-ber Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Beech Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Benton Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bethel Loop, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bienville Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bistineau Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 27 and 34, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bond Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bonita Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bon-ner Street (South), located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Branscome Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 26 and 35, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Bruin Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Bryan Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cad-do Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, California Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Calvine Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Caney Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 28, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Carey Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Charlotte Avenue (East & West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 25 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Clara Carr Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Clinic Way, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Colorado Avenue (East & West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 25 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cotton Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Courtney Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 33, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Cypress Springs Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, D’Arbonne Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dan Reneau Drive, located in the City of

Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 23 and 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Davis Blvd., located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Debra Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dee Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Dogwood Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Du-bach Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Dunbar Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Duncan Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, East-land Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Elizabeth Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Evelyn Cir-cle, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ezell Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Farmerville Street (South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 24, 25 and 36, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Fourth Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Franklin Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 34, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Furman Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Garden Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Gill Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Gilman Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Grant Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Groveland Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hart Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Haskell Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Haynes Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Henderson Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hergot Av-enue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hilly Avenue (East & West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 35 and 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hodges Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Homer Street (South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 23 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Hull Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jackson Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jenkins Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jessamine Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jody Ct., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Jones Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Kansas Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Kendall Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, King Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Kirkland Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, La-fourche Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 27, 33 and 34, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lakeview Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 27 and 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lakeview Place, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 28, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lar-son Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Lesna Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lilinda Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Av-enue, located in the City of

Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lind Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Line Avenue (East & West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 25 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Love Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 25 and 36, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Luntsford Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mag-nolia Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Maple Street (South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 22 and 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Martin L. King Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mayberry Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, May-field Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Mays Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, McDonald Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, McHenry Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mills Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Mitchell Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Monroe Street (South), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 23 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Nelson Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Nix Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Oakdale Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Olive Avenue (East & West), lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 25 and 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Olla Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Paul Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 33, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Paynter Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 27 and 28, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Peach Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pearl Ave-nue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pecan Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Penn Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 34, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Pine-wood Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Riser Road, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 1, Township 17 North, Range 3 West, Ragan Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ravine Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Red-bud Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Reed Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 33, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Robert Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rob-inette Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Roosevelt Drive, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Ross Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Rusty Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 34, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Saratoga Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sec-ond Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Shelor Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Sections 26 and 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sikes Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26 and 35, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Skokie Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Skyline Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Snowden Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 22, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Sparta Street

(South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 24 and 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, St. John Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 27, 28 and 33, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Stacy Lane, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, State Street, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Strain Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Taylor Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 26 and 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Tech Farm Road, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Sections 26, 27, 34 and 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Texas Avenue (East), located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Third Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Thornton Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Tim-bers Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 36, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Trenton Street (South), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Sections 26 and 35, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Union Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, University Blvd., located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Vaughn Avenue (East & West), located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sections 25 and 26, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Vernon Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tions 24 and 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Wade Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 27, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Walnut Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Westwood Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 26, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, White Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Wi-nona Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 35, Town-ship 18 North, Range 3 West, Yale Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 27, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and Zachry Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 33, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, contain-ing approximately 220.3 acres, all as more particu-larly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Department of Natural Resources. The description is based on in-formation provided by the State Agency regarding lo-cation and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.




NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force

NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the

Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.





NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing

at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TRACT 44342 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Louisiana Tech Uni-versity on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land, situated in Sections 25, Township 18 North - Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, more fully described as be-ing two tracts bounded by U.S. Highway 167, South by Mill Street, and East by Bonner Street, being the LA Tech University - Bio-medical Engineering Tract, acquisition information can be found in the Lincoln Par-ish Clerks of Court Office, containing approximately 4.46 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: The Louisiana Tech University will require a minimum bonus of $500 per acre and a minimum royalty of 25%.

TRACT 44343 - Jack-son and Lincoln Parishes, Louisiana

of X = 1,970,192.38 and Y = 665,421.43; thence West 9,240.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 665,421.43; thence North 8,320.00 feet to the point of beginning and being more particularly described as follows: being an un-named street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Beacon Light Road, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cardinal Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cedar Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Clay Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Colonial Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Cornell Avenue, located in the City of Rus-ton, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, and in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Dark Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Dunn Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Fourth Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Loui-siana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Franke Drive, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lewis Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Martin Loop, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, McAl-lister Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Oriole Avenue, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Richardson Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Robin Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Section 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Second Street, located in the City of Ruston, Louisi-ana, situated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Stewart Street, lo-cated in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situated in Sec-tion 30, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, and Third Avenue, located in the City of Ruston, Louisiana, situ-ated in Section 25, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, containing approximately 21.8 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).




A certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bottoms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not presently under mineral lease from City Of Ruston on August 12, 2015, be-ing more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point having Coordinates of X = 1,960,952.38 and Y = 673,741.43; thence East 9,240.00 feet to a point having Coordinates of X = 1,970,192.38 and Y = 673,741.43; thence South 8,320.00 feet to a point having Coordinates

NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or

from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.




NOTE: It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee,



including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.





NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any

state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TRACT 44344 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaA certain Tract of land, excluding the beds and bot-toms of all navigable waters, belonging to and not pres-ently under mineral lease from Lincoln Parish Police Jury on August 12, 2015, being more fully described as follows: That certain tract or parcel of land being Lot R-6 of Barker Subdivision and situated in the West Half of the East Half (W/2 of E/2) of Section 31, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Said tract being further identified in that certain Act of Cash Sale dated September 30, 2002 and recorded in Conveyance Book 1137, Page 339 under Entry No. F41664, of the Conveyance Records of the office of the Clerk of Court for Lincoln Parish Louisiana, containing approximately 0.49 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. The description is based on information provided by the State Agency regarding location and ownership of surface and mineral rights. All bearings, distances and coordinates, if applicable, are based on Louisiana Coordinate System of 1927, (North or South Zone).



NOTE: There shall be a minimum royalty of one-fourth (1/4).

NOTE: There shall be a minimum bonus of $1000.00 per acre.NOTE: The primary term shall be three (3) years.NOTE: It is agreed and understood, wherever the fraction one-eighth (1/8) appears regarding royalty, it shall be deemed to read one-fourth (1/4) instead so that the Lease provides for a full 1/4 royalty.NOTE: Should a pooled unit or units be created, either by governmental authority (compulsory units) or by voluntary action of the par-ties, which include all or a portion of the lands covered by this Lease, drilling opera-tions or production from the pool, sand or formation for which such unit or units were

created, all as defined by said governmental author-ity, or by said voluntary utilization agreement, shall maintain this Lease in force only as to that portion of the Leased Premises included in said unit or units, whether or not said duly operations or production is on or from the leased premises. However, Lessee shall ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations within the depth limitation set forth in this Lease as may be located within the area of said pooled unit or units within a period of five (5) years beyond the primary term or for so long as production is obtained from said other pooled unit or units, whichever is less. Should Lessee fail to so ex-plore and develop all other pools, sands or formations being held pursuant to this paragraph, then Lessee shall, by written recordable instrument, release all rights to such other pools, sands or formations.



NOTE: It is agreed and understood that this lease specifically covers and includes only oil, gas and related hydrocarbons pro-duced in association with either oil or gas or a com-bination of oil and gas and by-products produced and refined therefrom. Further-more this lease specifically excludes coal, sand, gravel, lignite, clay and any other hard minerals produced in association with oil or gas or refined as a by-product therefrom. Notwithstanding any wording in this lease to the contrary, it is hereby understood between LES-SOR and LESSEE that this lease covers only oil and gas in liquid, gaseous or vaporous forms or states, which can or may be pro-duced through a bore of a producing oil or gas well, excluding, however, coal bed methane gas and its associated hydrocarbons. Reference to all or any other minerals contained herein is hereby deleted. This Lease does not include any other minerals and all other minerals being are reserved to Lessor including but not limited to hard or solid min-erals, subterranean fresh water, coal bed methane, sulfur (or sulphur), Fuller’s Earth, bentonite, gravel, coal and lignite, nor shall be effective as to the brine rights other than those nec-essarily associated with the production of the minerals leased hereunder. Lessee shall also have no right to remove any of the reserved minerals, iron ore, soil, sand and timber from the leased premises regardless of reason. If Lessee desires to utilize water from the subsurface of the leased premises, that desire may be consummated by a sepa-rate agreement between Lessee and Lessor; this Lease does not give Lessee the right to utilize such water. Lessor expressly reserves the right to conduct (or to grant to others the right to conduct) surface or strip-mining operations for any mineral or other substance not covered by this Lease, but such operations shall not unreasonably interfere with and shall be subordi-nate to the rights of Lessee hereunder.NOTE: It is agreed between

the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this Lease or by state law shall be without deduction for any cost incurred by Lessee, including, but not limited to, producing, gathering, storing, separating, treat-ing, cleaning, dehydrating, compressing, detoxification, processing, transporting, metering, accounting and marketing the oil, gas and other products produced hereunder with the sole ex-ception that Lessor’s royalty shall bear its proportionate share of any severance & ad valorem taxes. Rather, royalties paid to Lessor herein shall be based on the value received by Les-see from the sale of such production to an unaffiliated, third-party purchaser, and in no event shall Lessor receive a price that is less than the price received by Lessee. Nor shall Lessee tender or deliver such roy-alty in kind in order to escape defraying the entire cost of such producing, gathering, storing, separating, treating, dehydrating, compressing, processing, transporting and marketing expense. Lessee shall account to and pay lessor within ninety (90) days after the last calendar day of the month in which the production is marketed and sold. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that Lessee shall have the right to utilize produced gas in its surface equipment, including com-pressors, and no royalties shall be due on any such utilized gas.





under an arm’s length sales contract prudently negoti-ated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. However, should Lessee by virtue of any order of any state or federal regulatory body receive less than the price provided for in any gas and/or liquid hydrocarbons sales contract entered into by Lessee, such lesser price shall be paid.






TA X A D J U D I C AT E D LANDS TRACTS (Tract Nos. 44347 through 44348 inclusive, herein)

TRACT 44347 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaAll of the mineral rights only under land adjudicated to and acquired by the State of Louisiana in and through a proper tax sale, and subsequently alienated by the State which retained the mineral rights thereto, and which is not under valid mineral lease from the State of Louisiana on August 12, 2015, situated in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being more fully described as fol-lows: A certain tract of land being adjudicated to the Parish of Lincoln, Louisiana, for non-payment of taxes by instrument dated June 6, 1997, recorded in Convey-ance Book 989, Page 282, Entry No. 89588, records of the Clerk of Court, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, situated in the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (N East 4 of North West 4) of Section 29, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Section 29, Township 18 North, Range 2 West, Lin-coln Parish, Louisiana (a 5/8 inch rebar); thence run East along the South line of said Northeast Quarter of Northwest Quarter for a distance of 416.79 feet to the point of beginning; from said point of beginning run North for a distance of 754.49 feet to a point in the center of Lincoln Parish Road No. 142; thence run North 42 degrees 48 minutes 57 seconds East along the center line of said road for a distance of 149.67 feet to a point; thence run North 54 degrees 29 minutes 23 seconds East along said center line for a distance of 6.60 feet to a railroad spike; thence leaving said center line, run South for a distance of 868.12 feet to a 1/2 inch rod; thence run West for a distance of 107.00 feet back to the point of beginning; containing 2.00 acres, all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. All bearings, distances and coordinates are based on Louisiana Coordinate Sys-tem of 1927, (North or South Zone), where applicable.


modified, canceled or abro-gated due to the existence of conflicting leases, operating agreements, private claims or other future obligations or conditions within the Tract described. In such case, however, the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board shall not be obligated to refund any consideration paid by the Lessee prior to such modification, cancella-tion or abrogation including, but not limited to, bonuses, rentals and royalties.

NOTE: No surface activity on this tract undertaken in conjunction with any op-erations under any mineral lease given on this tract will be allowed without prior approval of the surface owner and further, no such right of surface use shall be deemed to have been given as part of any mineral lease by the State of Louisiana on this tract.

TRACT 44348 - Lincoln Parish, LouisianaAll of the mineral rights only under land adjudicated to and acquired by the State of Louisiana in and through a proper tax sale, and subsequently alienated by the State which retained the mineral rights thereto, and which is not under valid mineral lease from the State of Louisiana on August 12, 2015, situated in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, and being more fully described as follows: A certain tract of land being adjudicated to the Parish of Lincoln, Louisiana, on the 19th day of December, 1934, for unpaid taxes of the year 1933 in the name of George Lewis, by instrument dated November 20, 1943: A lot of 4 acres beginning 2 acres West of the Northeast (NE) corner of the Southeast (SE) of the Northeast (NE) of Section 25 Township 18 North, Range 3 West, Lincoln Parish and running West 2 acres then South 2 acres then East 2 acres then North 2 acres to the place of beginning., all as more particularly outlined on a plat on file in the Office of Mineral Resources, Depart-ment of Natural Resources. All bearings, distances and coordinates are based on Louisiana Coordinate Sys-tem of 1927, (North or South Zone), where applicable.



NOTE: No surface activity on this tract undertaken in conjunction with any op-erations under any mineral lease given on this tract will be allowed without prior approval of the surface owner and further, no such right of surface use shall be deemed to have been given as part of any mineral lease by the State of Louisiana on this tract.1td: July 16, 2015

- 5 -TERRYVILLE AND WEST SIMSBORO FIELDSDocket Nos. 15-478 and 15-479 LEGAL NOTICESTATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVA-TION, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015, upon the application of MRD OPERATING LLC.At such hearing the Com-missioner of Conserva-tion will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, in the Terryville and West Simsboro Fields, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.1. To authorize MRD Operat-ing LLC to drill, designate and utilize a cross unit hori-zontal lateral as a substitute unit well for LCV RA SUQQ in the Terryville Field and as a unit well for LCV RA SUA in the West Simsboro Field, at the location and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, or within a 100’ radius of such location, provided that there are no perforations in the wellbore closer than 330’ to any unit line other than the common unit boundary between LCV RA SUQQ and LCV RA SUA.

NOTE: The price to be used in computing the market value of gas and/or liquid hy-drocarbons at the well head shall be the price received by the Lessee under an arm’s length sales contract with parties prudently nego-tiated in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time of the consum-mation of such contract. Should Lessee negotiate a sales contract with an af-filiate, parent or subsidiary company of Lessee, then the price so negotiated and paid to Lessee shall be not less than the price which Lessee would have received from a third party negotiated

An error or omission in the nominating party’s Tract description may require that a State mineral lease or geophysical agreement be

2. To authorize MRD Operat-ing LLC to drill, designate and utilize two (2) horizon-tal cross unit laterals as alternate unit wells for LCV

RA SUQQ in the Terryville Field and LCV RA SUA in the West Simsboro Field, at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, or within a 100’ radius of such locations, provided that there are no perforations in the wellbores closer than 330’ to any unit line other than the common unit boundary LCV RA SUQQ and LCV RA SUA.3. To confirm that with respect to the subject hori-zontal laterals for the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, in the Terryville Field, and the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, in the West Simsboro Field, where the horizontal lateral portion of the wells is cased and cemented back above the top of the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well(s) should be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the wells, and not based on the penetration point or terminus.4. To establish that these wells are necessary to ef-ficiently and economically drain a portion of the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, underlying the subject units.5. To find that unit production from the cross unit laterals should be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perforated length of the laterals in each unit bears to the total length of the perforated laterals as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the cross unit wells are drilled and completed.6. Otherwise, to authorize the unit allowable for these units to be recovered from the unit wells, the proposed alternate unit wells, or from any combination of such wells, at the discretion of the operator.7. To the extent necessary, to approve the location of the proposed wells as excep-tions to the field spacing rules for the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, in the Terryville Field and the West Simsboro Field, respectively.8. Except to the extent in-consistent herewith, to con-firm and continue in effect the provisions of Order No. 370-B-6, effective February 18, 1982, as amended and supplemented by the 370-B Series of Orders, and Order No. 327-H, effective Janu-ary 8, 2013, as amended and supplemented by the 327-H Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Orders.9. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.The Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A was defined in Order No. 370-B-6, effective February 18, 1982 and was redefined as to LCV RA SUQQ in Order No. 370-B-167, effective July 21, 2009.The Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A was defined in Order No. 327-H, effective January 8, 2013, and was redefined in Order No. 327-H-1, effective November 5, 2013.A plat is available for inspec-tion in the Office of Conser-vation in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana.http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearingsAll parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.BY ORDER OF:JAMES H. WELSHCOMMISSIONER OF CON-SERVATIONIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-EN-GINEERING DIVISION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE.1td: July 16, 2015

- 2 -RUSTON FIELDDocket Nos. 15-489 and 15-490 LEGAL NOTICESTATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVA-TION, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015, upon the application of MRD OPERATING LLC.At such hearing the Com-missioner of Conserva-tion will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Cotton Valley Zone, Res-ervoir B, in the Ruston Field, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.1. To authorize MRD Operat-ing LLC to drill, designate and utilize one horizontal lateral as an additional cross unit alternate unit well for CV RB SUH and CV RB SUJ, at the location and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, provided that there are no perforations in the wellbore closer than 330’ to any unit line other than the common unit boundary between CV RB SUH and CV RB SUJ.2. To confirm that with respect to the proposed horizontal lateral to be drilled to the Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, where the horizontal lateral por-tion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of the Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, the dis-tance to any unit boundary and any offset well should be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the well, and not based on the penetration point or terminus.

3. To establish that the pro-posed alternate unit well is necessary to efficiently and economically drain a portion of the Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, underlying CV RB SUH and CV RB SUJ.4. To find that unit production from the proposed cross unit lateral should be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the cross unit well is drilled and completed.5. Otherwise, to authorize the unit allowable for these units to be recovered from the unit wells, any alternate unit wells, or from any com-bination of such wells, at the discretion of the operator.6. To the extent necessary, to approve the location of the additional alternate unit well as an exception to the field spacing rules for the Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B.7. Except to the extent inconsistent herewith, to confirm and continue in ef-fect the pertinent provisions of Office of Conservation Order No. 164-HH-1, effec-tive September 26, 2007, as amended and supplement-ed by the 164-HH Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Orders.8. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.The Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B was defined in Order No. 164-HH-1, effective September 26, 2007, and (a) was redefined as to CV RB SUH and CV RB SUJ in Order No. 164-HH-3, effective August 12, 2008 and further redefined as to said units in Order No. 164-HH-11, effective January 7, 2014.A plat is available for inspec-tion in the Office of Conser-vation in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana.http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearingsAll parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.BY ORDER OF:JAMES H. WELSHCOMMISSIONER OF CON-SERVATIONIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-EN-GINEERING DIVISION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE.1td: July 16, 2015

- 3 –RUSTON FIELDDocket Nos. 15-473 thru 15-475 LEGAL NOTICESTATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVA-TION, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015, upon the application of MRD OPERATING LLC.At such hearing the Com-missioner of Conserva-tion will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir B and Cotton Valley Zone, Reser-voir B, in the Ruston Field, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.1. To authorize MRD Oper-ating LLC to designate and utilize the “as drilled” loca-tions of (a) the Colvin Estate 28-33-4 HC No. 1-Alt. Well (SN 247714), and (b) the Colvin Estate 28-33-4 HC No. 2-Alt. Well (SN 247715) as cross unit alternate unit wells for LCV RB SUA, CV RB SUO and CV RB SUK, in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, marked for identification as Exhibit No. 1, which locations are in lieu of the locations approved by Office of Conservation Order Nos. 164-Z-22 and 164-HH-27, both effective September 24, 2014.2. To authorize MRD Operat-ing LLC to drill, designate and utilize four (4) horizontal laterals to be drilled as ad-ditional cross unit alternate unit wells for LCV RB SUA, CV RB SUO and CV RB SUK, at the locations and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application and marked for identification as Exhibit No. 2, or within a 100’ ra-dius of the paths indicated, provided that there are no perforations in any of the wellbores closer than 330’ to any unit line other than the common unit boundaries between (a) LCV RB SUA and CV RB SUO and (b) CV RB SUO and CV RB SUK, respectively.3. To confirm that with respect to the proposed horizontal laterals to be drilled to the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir B and Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, where the horizontal lateral portion of the wells is cased and cemented back above the top of the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir B and Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well should be calcu-lated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the wells, and not based on the penetration point or terminus.4. To establish that the proposed alternate unit wells are necessary to ef-ficiently and economically drain a portion of the Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir B, underlying the LCV RB SUA, and a portion of the Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B, underlying CV RB SUO and CV RB SUK.5. To find that unit production

from the proposed cross unit laterals should be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perforated length of the laterals in each unit bears to the total length of the perforated laterals as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the cross unit wells are drilled and completed.6. Otherwise, to authorize the unit allowable for these units to be recovered from the unit wells, any alternate unit wells, or from any com-bination of such wells, at the discretion of the operator.7. To the extent necessary, to approve the location of the additional alternate unit wells as exceptions to the field spacing rules for the Lower Cotton Valley Forma-tion, Reservoir B and Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B.8. Except to the extent in-consistent herewith, to con-firm and continue in effect (a) the provisions of Order No. 164-Z-1, effective July 11, 2006, as amended and supplemented by the 164-Z Series of Orders, (b) the provisions of Order No. 164-HH-1, effective September 26, 2007, as amended and supplemented by the 164-HH Series of Orders, and (c) all applicable Statewide Orders.9. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.The Lower Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir B was defined in Order No. 164-Z-1, effective July 11, 2006 and was redefined as to LCV RB SUA in Order No. 164-Z-19, effective February 11, 2014.The Cotton Valley Zone, Reservoir B was defined in Order No. 164-HH-1, effec-tive September 26, 2007, and (a) was redefined as to CV RB SUK in Order No. 164-HH-5, effective April 26, 2011 and further redefined as to said unit in Order No. 164-HH-6, effective June 11, 2013, and (b) was redefined as to CV RB SUO in Order No. 164-HH-12, effective January 22, 2014.Plats are available for inspection in the Office of Conservation in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana.http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearingsAll parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.BY ORDER OF:JAMES H. WELSHCOMMISSIONER OF CON-SERVATIONIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-EN-GINEERING DIVISION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE.1td: July 16, 2015

- 2 -CHOUDRANT FIELDDocket Nos. 15-471 and 15-472 LEGAL NOTICESTATE OF LOUISIANA, OFFICE OF CONSERVA-TION, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with particular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2015, upon the ap-plication of WILDHORSE RESOURCES MANAGE-MENT COMPANY, LLC.At such hearing the Com-missioner of Conserva-tion will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the following matters relating to the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, and Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir C, in the Choudrant Field, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana.1. To authorize Wildhorse Resources Management Company, LLC to drill, designate and utilize one (1) horizontal cross unit lateral to serve as a unit well for CV RA SUJ and CV RC SUE, at the location and in the general manner shown on the plat submitted with the application, or within a 100’ radius of the path shown, provided that there are no perforations in the wellbore closer than 330’ to any unit boundary other than the common unit boundary between CV RA SUJ and CV RC SUE.2. To confirm that with re-spect to the proposed hori-zontal lateral to be drilled to the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A and Cotton Val-ley Formation, Reservoir C, where the horizontal lateral portion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of respective forma-tions, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well(s) should be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the well, and not based on the penetration point or terminus.3. To establish that the proposed cross unit lateral well to serve CV RA SUJ and CV RC SUE is necessary to efficiently and economi-cally drain the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A and Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir C, underlying said units.4. To find that unit production from the cross unit lateral should be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the cross unit well is drilled and completed.5. Otherwise, to authorize the unit allowable for these units to be recovered from the unit well, any alternate unit well, or from any com-bination of such wells, in the discretion of the operator.6. To the extent necessary,

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to approve the locations of the proposed wells as an exception to the field spacing rules for the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A and Cotton Valley Forma-tion, Reservoir C.7. Except to the extent inconsistent herewith, to confirm and continue in ef-fect the provisions of Office of Conservation Order No. 260-X, effective July 11, 2006, with respect to the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir A, and Order No. 260-X-3, effective February 11, 2014, with respect to the Cotton Valley Formation, Reservoir C, as amended and supplemented by the 260-X Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Orders.8. To consider such other matters as may be pertinent.The Cotton Valley For-mation, Reservoir A was defined in Order No. 260-X, effective July 11, 2006.The Cotton Valley Forma-tion, Reservoir C was de-fined in Order No. 260-X-3, effective February 11, 2014.A plat is available for inspec-tion in the Office of Conser-vation in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana.http://dnr.louisiana.gov/conshearingsAll parties having interest therein shall take notice thereof.BY ORDER OF:JAMES H. WELSHCOMMISSIONER OF CON-SERVATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE OF CONSERVATION-EN-GINEERING DIVISION AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE.1td: July 16, 2015


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