Washington : Government Printing Office
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| VOLUME 8—1943 | 6857 |
| VOLUME 8—1943 | 6858 |
Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of
the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1016), the Shoshone-Arapahoe Tribes of Indians in Wyoming ceded to the United States a large area of their reservation in the State of Wyoming, established under the Treaty of July 3, 1868 (15 Stat. 873), and
Whereas, within three land use districts there are certain undisposed-of ceded or "opened" lands described as follows:
T. 7 N., R. 1 E.,
Secs., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9;
Sec. 15, NW ¼, N ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ SW ¼;
Sec. 16, N ½, SW ¼, W ½ SE ¼, NE ¼ SE ¼;
Sec. 17, N ½, SW ¼, W ½ SE ¼;
Secs. 18 and 19;
Sec. 20, W ½, SE ¼, S ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼;
Sec. 21, W ½, SE ¼, S ½ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼;
Sec. 22, SW ¼ SW ¼, E ½ W ½;
Sec., 27, NW ¼;
Sec., 28, N ½;
Sec., 29, NE ¼, N ½ NW ¼;
T. 7 N., R. 1 W.;
Sec., 1, Lots 3 and 4, S ½ NW ¼, S ½ S ½;
Sec., 2, SE ¼;
Sec. 11;
Sec. 12, N ½, SE ¼, E ½ SW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼;
Sec. 13, E ½, SW ¼, E ½ NW ¼;
Sec. 14;
Sec. 23, N ½ NE ¼;
Sec. 24;
T. 4 N., R. 2 W.;
Sec., 21, E ½ NW ¼, SW ¼ NW ¼, NW ¼ SW ¼, SW ¼ SE ¼;
See. 28, W ½ NE ¼;
T. 5 N., R. 4 E.;
Sec. 1, Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, S ½ NE ¼ SE ¼ NW ¼;
Sec. 2, Lot 1;
Sec. 12, SE ¼, E ½ SW ¼, SE ¼ NW ¼;
Sec., 13, E ½, E ½ W ½;
Secs. 24, 25, and 36;
T. 6 N., R. 4 E.,
Sec., 36, N ½;
T. 5 N., R. 5 E.;
Secs., 5 and 6;
T. 6 N., R. 5 E.;
Sec., 31, S ½;
Sec., 32, S ½.
Whereas no part of the land use districts involved is under lease or permit to non-Indians, and
Whereas the Shoshone-Arapahoe Tribes of Indians of the Wind River Reservation require additional grazing lands to support their expanded livestock industry, and
Whereas the Superintendent of the Wind River Reservation and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs have recommended the restoration of the undisposed-of, ceded lands located within the aforesaid land use districts.
Now, therefore, by virtue of authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by section 5 of the Act of July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1128-1130), I hereby find that restoration to tribal ownership of the lands described above which are classified as undisposed-of, ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, and which total 17,800 acres more or less, will be in the tribal interest, and they are hereby restored to tribal ownership for the use and benefit of the Shoshone-Arapahoe Tribes of Indians of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, and are added to and made a part of the existing Wind River Reservation, subject to any valid existing rights.
OSCAR L. CHAPMAN,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
