The Commissioners of the Land Office
The Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO) is an Oklahoma State Agency created by the original Oklahoma Constitution. The Commissioners of the Land Office is mandated to have charge of the sale, rental, disposal and management of the trust land and of the funds and proceeds derived thereof, under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Oklahoma legislature.
The primary purpose of the CLO is to administer the school land trust funds for the production of income for the support and maintenance of the common schools and the schools of higher education. This responsibility resides in the five Commissioners.
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The Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO) is an Oklahoma State Agency created by the original Oklahoma Constitution.
The primary purpose of the CLO is to administer the school land trust funds for the production of income for the support and maintenance of the common schools and the schools of higher education.
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The Commissioners of the Land Office are constitutionally charged to manage Land Office trust assets for the benefit and support of public education.
As a condition of joining the Union as its forty-sixth state, the federal government in the Enabling Act of 1906 required the Commissioners to enter into an irrevocable compact whereby certain federally donated lands within Oklahoma and the sum of five million federal dollars received would be placed in trust for the benefit and support of present and future public education recipients within the state.
The compact provides that the lands and investments made are to be used solely to support public education and cannot be applied for any other purpose. In 1907, the people of the State of Oklahoma agreed to the federal trust requirements, as reflected in our state constitution solemnly promising to administer the trust assets as charged by Congress.