INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

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PRIVATE LAWS OF THE EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1956
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Private Law 801 | Chapter 706
July 24, 1956 | [H. R. 8005] 70 Stat. A142

AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance to the Mathew American Horse American Legion Post Numbered 259, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, of certain lands upon the Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, for use as a site for the erection of a memorial monument in honor of members of the Armed Forces killed in battle.

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Chap. 706 Standing Rock Reservation, N. Dak. Conveyance.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey to the Mathew American Horse American Legion Post Numbered 259, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, for use as a site to erect a memorial monument, all the right, title, and interest of the United States and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of Indians to the parcel of land within the Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, described as the east half of the southeast

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quarter of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 26, township 134 north, range 79 west, fifth principal meridian, consisting of one and one-quarter acres more or less, subject to a reservation of all rights, to oil, gas, and other mineral deposits in such described land and the right to develop such mineral deposits in any manner that will not interfere with the use of the land as a memorial monument site, and subject to the condition that in the event the Secretary of the Interior determines that the land has ceased to be used as a memorial monument site the title to the land shall revert to the United States to be held in the same manner it was held prior to such conveyance.

Approved, July 24, 1956.


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