Washington : Government Printing Office
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Public Law 87-609 | Indians. Choctaw Tribe. Property disposition. 25 U. S. C. 355 note. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of August 25, 1959 (73 Stat. 420), is amended as follows: The words "three years", which appear twice in section 1 (a), once in section 1 (d), once in section 11, once in section 12 (a), and once in section 12 (b), are changed to "six years".
Section 12 (c) of such Act is amended by changing the period to a comma and adding "and for a period of three years after such legal entity is organized it shall have the same immunity from the defense of laches or a statute of limitations that the Choctaw Tribe had prior to such time."
Approved, August 24, 1962.