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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · May 21, 1928 · Chapter 644

Chapter 644. To authorize allotments to unallotted Indians on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming

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Chap. 644: To authorize allotments to unallotted Indians on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. Chapter 644 45 Stat. 617 1928-05-21 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 644.— An Act To authorize allotments to unallotted Indians on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming.
May 21, 1928.[[S. 3365](/us/bill/70/s/3365).][[Public, No. 442](/us/pl/70/442).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Shoshone Reservation, Wyo.Trust patents to unallotted children enrolled on.of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to allot lands classified as nonirrigable, nontimbered grazing lands on the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, to all unallotted living children enrolled or entitled to be enrolled on said reservation, Areas.in areas not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres each, and to issue therefor trust patents of the form and legal effect authorized by the general allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Vol. 24, p. 388.Statutes, page 388), as amended: *Provided,* That all minerals, *Proviso.*Mineral deposits reserved for the Indians.including oil and gas, on any of the lands allotted hereunder are reserved in common for the benefit of the Indians having rights on the reservation, and may be leased for mining purposes under existing law.
Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of Sum authorized for surveys, etc*Post,* pp. 899, 1641.any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the expenses for necessary surveys, classification of lands, and all other expenses in connection with the allotment work. Approved, May 21, 1928.
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