INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. VI, Laws     (Compiled from February 10, 1939 to January 13, 1971)

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PUBLIC LAWS OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, 1953
Chap. 65 | Chap. 86 | Chap. 98 | Chap. 99 | Chap. 100 | Chap. 223 | Chap. 245 | Chap. 251 | Chap. 298 | Chap. 302 | Chap. 324 | Chap. 400 | Chap. 402 | Chap. 406 | Chap. 409 | Chap. 502 | Chap. 505 | Chap. 506 | Chap. 509

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Public Law 277 | Chapter 502
August 15, 1953 | [H. R. 1055] 67 stat. 586

AN ACT
To eliminate certain discriminatory legislation against Indians in the United States.
Section 2 | 3 | 4

Margin Notes
Chap. 502 Indian liquor laws. 62 Stat. 757.
Sec. 3 587
Sec. 4 Repeal.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 53 of title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the chapter analysis preceding section 1151 of such title the following new item:

"1161. Application of Indian liquor laws."

SEC. 2.

Title 18, United States Code, is hereby further amended by inserting in chapter 53 thereof immediately after section 1160 a new section, to be designated as section 1161, as follows:

"§ 1161. APPLICATION OF INDIAN LIQUOR LAWS

"The provisions of sections 1154, 1156, 3113, 3488, and 3618, of this title, shall not apply within any area that is not Indian country, nor to any act or transaction within any area of Indian country provided such act or transaction is in conformity both with the laws of the State in which such act or transaction occurs and with an ordinance duly adopted by the tribe having jurisdiction over such area of Indian country, certified by the Secretary of the Interior, and published in the Federal Register."

SEC. 3.

The consent of the United States is hereby given to repeal of the third and eleventh paragraphs of article 20 of the constitution of Arizona, and that part of section 1 of article 21 of the constitution of

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New Mexico relating to the sales of intoxicants to Indians, if the people of Arizona and New Mexico shall adopt constitutional amendments to accomplish such repeal.

SEC. 4.

Section 9 of the Act of June 4, 1920, An Act to provide for allotment of lands of the Crow Tribe, for the distribution of tribal funds, and for other purposes (41 Stat. 751), is hereby repealed.

Approved, August 15, 1953.


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