Public Law 748.
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(/us/pl/74/747).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, San Juan, etc., Rivers.Survey to determine best utilization of surplus waters, etc., authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause an examination and survey to be made to determine the best utilization of the surplus waters of the San Juan River, a tributary of the Colorado River, and to determine the best possible use of such waters in the San Juan Basin without injury to the present users of the waters of the San Juan River and by diversion if feasible of a portion of such surplus waters to the Rio Chama, a Report to Congress.tributary of the Rio Grande River, and to report the results of such surveys and examinations to the Congress as soon as possible.
There Sum authorized.is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof 11So in original. may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this Act: *Proviso.*Similar examination of Animas River.*Provided*, That $17,500 of the above sum may be expended for a similar examination and survey of the surplus waters of the Animas River, a tributary of the Rio Grande River’, with a view to the diversion, if feasible, of a portion of such surplus waters to the Rio Grande River.
Approved, June 22, 1936. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve certain lands on the public domain in Nevada for addition to the Walker River Indian Reservation. 1936-06-22 698 Chapter 49 Stat. 1806 74 2 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 698.] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve certain lands on the public domain in Nevada for addition to the Walker River Indian Reservation.June 22, 1936.[[S. 3805](/us/bill/74/s/3805).][[Public, No. 748](/us/pl/74/622).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Walker River Indian Reservation, Nev.Certain public lands added to.Location.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to set aside not to exceed one hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred acres, or so much thereof as he may deem advisable, of the public-domain 1807lands in townships 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 north, ranges 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Nevada, as an addition to the Walker River Indian Reservation: *Provided*, That the said withdrawal *Proviso.*Prior rights not affected.Stock driveways.shall not affect any valid rights initiated prior to the approval hereof: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall arrange, either by the maintenance of existing stock driveways or otherwise, to permit stock owned by others than Indians to cross the reservation at designated points.
Executive order of November Executive order revoked.Vol. 48. p. 1269.[U. S. C., p. 1851.](/us/usc/1851)26, 1934, temporarily withdrawing public-domain lands for classification, and so forth, under the Taylor Grazing Act of June 28, 1934 (ch. 865, 48 Stat. L. 1269), is hereby revoked as to such of the above-described lands as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior for addition to the said Walker River Indian Reservation. Sec. 2. Title to all minerals in said lands is hereby reserved toMineral rights reserved. the United States and shall be subject to all forms of mineral entry or claim under the public land mining laws: *Provided*, That the *Provisos.*Payments to Paiute Indians.Paiute Indians of the Walker River Reservation shall be paid by mineral claimants for the loss of any improvements on any lands located or withdrawn for mining purposes under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*, That an annual rental of not less than 5 cents per acre Rental payments.shall be paid to the superintendent of the reservation to be deposited to the credit of the tribe as compensation for loss of use or occupancy of any lands withdrawn for mining purposes or mineral entry.
No Denial of patent if rent in arrears, etc.mineral patent shall be granted to any applicant who is delinquent in the payment of rental or in the payment of any damages due the tribe under the provisions of this Act. Approved, June 22, 1936. To provide a civil government for the Virgin Islands of the United States. 1936-06-22 699 Chapter 49 Stat. 1807 74 2 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 2025-01-07 public [CHAPTER 699.] AN ACT To provide a civil government for the Virgin Islands of the United States. June 22, 1936.[[S. 4524](/us/bill/74/s/4524).][
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