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-FIFTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1958
Public Law 85-343 | Public Law 85-381 | Public Law 85-387 | Public Law 85-395 | Public Law 85-396 | Public Law 85-420 | Public Law 85-425 | Public Law 85-439 | Public Law 85-483 | Public Law 85-488 | Public Law 85-500 | Public Law 85-508 | Public Law 85-523 | Public Law 85-580 | Public Law 85-547 | Public Law 85-605 | Public Law 85-610 | Public Law 85-612 | Public Law 85-615 | Public Law 85-620 | Public Law 85-623 | Public Law 85-628 | Public Law 85-671 | Public Law 85-731 | Public Law 85-740 | Public Law 85-758 | Public Law 85-766 | Public Law 85-767 | Public Law 85-770 | Public Law 85-771 | Public Law 85-773 | Public Law 85-780 | Public Law 85-794 | Public Law 85-801 | Public Law 85-806 | Public Law 85-816 | Public Law 85-857 | Public Law 85-859 | Public Law 85-860 | Public Law 85-863 | Public Law 85-868 | Public Law 85-878 | Public Law 85-910 | Public Law 85-915 | Public Law 85-916 | Public Law 85-923

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Public Law 85-420
May 19, 1958 | [H. R. 8544] 72 Stat. 121

AN ACT
To provide for the restoration to tribal ownership of all vacant and undisposed-of ceded lands on certain Indian reservations, and for other purposes.
Section 2 | 3

Margin Notes
Public Law 85-420 Indian lands. Restoration.
Sec. 3 Sale or exchange of lands.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all lands now or hereafter classified as vacant and undisposed-of ceded lands (including townsite lots) on the following named Indian reservations are hereby restored to tribal ownership, subject to valid existing rights:

Reservation and State Approximate Acreage
Klamath River, California 159.57
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 12,877.65
Crow, Montana 10,260.95
Fort Peck, Montana 41,450.13
Spokane, Washington 5,451.00

Provided, That such restoration shall not apply to any lands while they are within reclamation projects heretofore authorized.

SEC. 2.

Title to the lands restored to tribal ownership by this Act shall be held by the United States in trust for the respective tribe or tribes, and such lands are hereby added to and made a part of the existing reservations for such tribe or tribes.

SEC. 3.

The lands restored to tribal ownership by this Act may be sold or exchanged by the tribe, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

Approved, May 19, 1958.

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