This document discusses Texas laws around oil and gas leasing and pooling, including how leasing contributed $12.3 billion to the Texas Permanent School Fund and how different acts from 1895-1931 established rules for surface owners to act as agents and receive free royalties of 1/6 to 1/8 of production, as well as how leasing preferentially considers adjacent mineral owners and requires pooling approval or allows for forced pooling of riverbeds.