Chapter 119. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain Indian lands necessary for reservoir purposes in connection with the Blackfeet Indian reclamation project
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CHAP. 119.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain Indian lands necessary for reservoir purposes in connection with the Blackfeet Indian reclamation project. April 1, 1920. [[S. 1329](/us/bill/66/s/1329).] [[Public, No. 168](/us/pl/66/168).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theBlackfeet Indian Reservation, Mont.Purchase of allotments to George W.
Cook and David La Breche from irrigation funds for. Interior is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $5,944.93 from any money now available for construction of irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Reservation, in Montana, in the purchase of lands embraced in the allotments of George W. Cook and David La Breche, described as lots three and five, section twenty-seven, and lots one and two, section thirty-four, township thirty-two north, range thirteen west, in consideration of the relinquishment by the allottees of all their right, title, and interest in and to said lands, and of their right to select lieu land under the provisions of section 14 of the Act of June 25,Vol. 36, p. 859. 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, pages 855 and 859), and the release of all their claims whatsoever against the United States or the Blackfeet Tribe of Indians by reason of said lands being required for reservoir purposes in connection with the irrigation system on the aforesaid Indian reservation.
Approved, April 1, 1920.