Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1941.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Pueblo Indian tribes of New Mexico, commonly known and referred to as the Pueblo de Jemez and Pueblo de Pecos, be, and they are hereby, consolidated and merged into one tribe hereafter to be known as the Pueblo de Jemez.
That all property, real or personal, rights, titles, interests, claims, or demands of whatsoever kind or nature, now held or claimed by either of said tribes, or communities shall be, and hereby are, vested in the consolidated tribe.
That the unexpended balance of any funds heretofore awarded to, appropriated for, or hereafter to be appropriated by Congress for the use or benefit of either of said tribes or pueblos referred to shall be held for and applied to the use and benefit of said consolidated and merged tribe or pueblo, known as Pueblo de Jemez, subject to all limitations or restrictions now applicable to said funds.
Approved, June 19, 1936.
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