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SCHEDULE 13-G
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No._______)*
Mesa Royalty Trust
(Name of Issuer)
Units of Beneficial Interest
(Title of Class of Securities)
590660106
(CUSIP Number)
Check the following box if a fee is being paid with this statement. (A fee is
not required only if the filling person: (1) has a previous statement on file re
porting benenfical ownership of more than five percent of the class of
securities described in Item 1; and (2) has filed no amendment
subsequent thereto reporting beneficial ownership of five percent or less of
such class.) (See Rule 13d-7).
* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's
initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of
securities, and for any sbsequent amendment containing information which
would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required in the remainder of theis cover page shall not be
deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to
the liabilities of that section of the Act but hsall be subject to all other
provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).
SEC 1745 (2-95)
CUSIP No. 590660106
13-G
1 NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
SS or IRS IDENTIFICATION NO OF ABOVE PERSON
Beck, Mack & Oliver LLC
13-0477010
2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP*
(a) [__]
(b) [__]
3 SEC USE ONLY
4 CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION
New York
NUMBER OF 5 SOLE VOTING POWER
SHARES -0-
BENEFICIALLY 6 SHARED VOTING POWER
OWNED BY -0-
EACH 7 SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
REPORTING -0-
PERSON 8 SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER
WITH 288,290 SHARES
9 AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING
PERSON 288,290 SHARES
10 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROM (9) EXCLUDES
CERTAIN SHARES*
11 PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW 9
15.47%
12 TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON *
1A
General Instructions:
Item 1
a. Name of Issuer Mesa Royalty Trust
b. Address of Issuer: c/o Texas Commerce Bank NA, Corporate Trust Division
712 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
Item 2
Name of Company Filing
a. Beck, Mack & Oliver
b. 330 Madison Avenue,New York, NY 10017-5001
c. New York
d. Units of Beneficial Interest
e. Cusip# 590660106
Item 3
Investment Advisor
Item 4
a. Amount Benefically owned 288,290 shares
b. Percent of Class 15.47%
c. (i) (ii) (iii) N/A
(iv) 288,290 shares
Item 5
NA
Item 6
Ownership of more than five percent on behalf of another person
The securities covered by this statement are owned by investment
advisory clients of Beck, Mack & Oliver LLC. These clients have
the right to recieve or the power to direct the receipt of
dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, such securities.
No one of these clients owns more than 5% of such class of securities.
Item 7
N/A
Item 8
N/A
Item 9
N/A
Item 10
We are filing electronically, not manually, therefore we are no supplying a
signature area.
