Indian Land Transactions. 85-2, 1958. Committee Print

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Page 571 - Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States...
Page 564 - ... but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twentythree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid...
Page 171 - Territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or his heirs as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever: Provided, That the President of the United States may in any case in his discretion extend the period.
Page 569 - SEC. 3. That the residue of the lands of said reservation — that is, the lands not allotted and not reserved — shall be classified under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior as irrigable lands, grazing lands, timber lands, mineral lands, or arid lands, and shall be appraised under their appropriate classes by legal subdivisions, with the exception of the mineral lands, which need not be appraised, and the timber on the lands classified as timber lands shall be appraised separately from...
Page 328 - Stat. 750-751) , no fee for the application or for the visa of the passport shall be collected from any officer of any foreign government, or members of his immediate family...
Page 817 - Indian use shall be taken in the name of the United States of America in trust for the tribe or individual Indian for which acquired.
Page 571 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.
Page 567 - States of all the coal and other minerals in the lands so entered and patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal and other mineral deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal and mineral land laws in force at the time of such disposal.
Page 563 - Reservation, thence south following the eastern boundary of said reservation to the place of beginning, containing by estimation one million five hundred thousand acres, the same being a portion of the Colville Indian Reservation, created by executive order dated...
Page 569 - That the mineral lands only in the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, shall be subject to entry under the laws of the United States in relation to the entry of minerals lands: Provided, That lands allotted to the Indians or used by the Government for any purpose or by any school shall not be subject to entry under this provision...

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