INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

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

Washington : Government Printing Office

PUBLIC LAWS OF THE NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, 1969
Public Law 91-24 | Public Law 91-47 | Public Law 91-64 | Public Law 91-75 | Public Law 91-98 | Public Law 91-100 | Public Law 91-103 | Public Law 91-104 | Public Law 91-112 | Public Law 91-115 | Public Law 91-123 | Public Law 91-125 | Public Law 91-148 | Public Law 91-149 | Public Law 91-152 | Public Law 91-166

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Public Law 91-115
November 10, 1969 | [S. 73] 83 Stat. 190

AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and exchange of isolated tracts of tribal land on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota".
Section 2

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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 Act of December 11, 1963 (77 Stat. 349), Public Law 88-196, entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and exchange of isolated tracts of tribal land on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota", be and the same is hereby amended by adding a section 3 reading as follows:

"SEC. 3. Any land mortgaged under section 2 of this Act shall be subject to foreclosure or sale pursuant to the terms of such mortgage or deed of trust in accordance with the laws of South Dakota. For the purpose of any foreclosure or sale proceeding, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe shall be regarded as vested with an unrestricted fee simple title to the land, the United States shall not be a necessary party to the foreclosure or sale proceeding, and any conveyance of the land pursuant to the foreclosure or sale proceeding shall divest the United States of title to the land. Title to any land redeemed or acquired by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe at such foreclosure or sale proceeding shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe. Title to any land purchased by an individual Indian member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe at such foreclosure sale or proceeding may, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the individual Indian purchaser."

SEC. 2.

The Act of December 11, 1963 (77 Stat. 349), Public Law 88-196, entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and exchange of isolated tracts of tribal land on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota", is further amended by adding a section 4 reading as follows:

"SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the foreclosure

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of a mortgage or a deed of trust which is then owned by an individual Indian."

Approved, November 10, 1969.

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