Chapter 59. Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to determine and report upon the interest, title, ownership, and right of possession of the Yankton Band of Santee Sioux Indians to the Red Pipestone Quarries, Minnesota
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CHAP. 59.— An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to determine and report upon the interest, title, ownership, and right of possession of the Yankton Band of Santee Sioux Indians to the Red Pipestone Quarries, Minnesota. January 9, 1925.[[H. R. 8545](/us/bill/68/hr/8545).][[Public, No. 313](/us/pl/68/313).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Yankton Sioux Indians.Court of Claims to determine interest of, in Red Pipestone Quarries, Minn.Vol. 36, p. 284.
That jurisdiction be, and it hereby is, conferred upon the Court of Claims to determine and report from the finding of facts reported by said court as authorized by section 22 of the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 284), the interest, title, ownership, and right of possession of the Yankton Band of Santee Sioux Indians in and to the land known as the “Red Pipestone Quarries,” described in said Act of April 4, 1910; and said court shall determine what amount, if any, is legally and equitably due from the United States to the said Yankton Band of Santee Sioux Indians for the said quarries, and enter judgment thereon.
Sec. 2. Interest of other Sioux Indians to be determined. That the court is hereby further authorized to determine what, if any, other band or bands of Sioux Indians have an interest in and to the said Red Pipestone Quarries, and the amount thereof, if any. Approved, January 9, 1925.