74 TH CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHS. 698, 699. JUNE 22, 1936. lands 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 R iver Indi an Reser vation : Pro vided , That the said with- Provisos . drawal shall not affect any valid rights initiated prior to the affected . rights not appr oval hereo f : P , ovided further, That the Secretary of the Interior stock driveways . shall arrange, either by the maintenance of existing stock driveways or otherwise, to permit stock owned by o thers than Indians to cross the reservation at designated points . Executive order of November 26, 1934, temporarily withdrawing public-domain lands for classifica- tion, 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 to Mineral ri ghts re. the United States and shall be subject to all forms of mineral entry served . or claim under the public land mining laws : Provided, That the Proaisos . Paiute Indians of the Walker River Reservation shall be paid by Indians . ent s mineral claimants for the loss of any improvements on any lands located or withdrawn for mining purposes under rules and regula- tions t o be presc ribed by t he Secreta ry of the Interior
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further, That an annual rental of not less than 5 cents per acre 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of the reservation to be deposited to the credit of the tribe as compensation for loss of use or occupancy of any lands withdrawn for mining purposes or mineral entry .No rent in
pent if mine ral p atent shal l be grant ed to any appli cant who i s del inque nt 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 . [CHAPTER 699 .1 AN ACT To provide a civil govern ment for the Vi rgin Islands of the United Stat es . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of this Act, and the name "the Virgin Islands" as used in this Act, shall apply to and include the territori al domain, lands and waters acquired by the United States through cession of the Danish West Indian Islands by the c onvention between the Unit ed States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark entered into August 4, 1916, and ratified by the Senate on September 7, 1916 (39 Stat . L. 1706) . SEC. 2. The insular possession which is the Virgin Islands shall be divided into two municipalities, namely, (1) the municipality of Saint Croix and (2) the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John . The boun darie s of said munic ipali ties shall be t he sa me as at present established in accordance with laws in force on the date of enactment of this Act, and the capital and seat of the central government shall be Saint Thomas . In this Act the phrase "the Government of the Virgin Islands" shall include, in addition to the governing authority of the insular possession, the governing author- ity of the two municipalities, unless th e context shall indicate a differe nt intenti on . SEC . 3 . The inhabitants of the municipality of Saint Croix and of Saint Croix, the municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John are hereby con- Thomas and stituted into bodies politic and juridic, under the present name of each such municipality, and as such bodies they shall have perpetual succession and power (a) to adopt and us e an official seal
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sue and in cases arising out of contract to be sued ; (c) to demand the June 22, 1936 . [S . 4524.1 [Public, No . 749.] Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States . Territorial limits de- fined . Vol.39,p.1706. 180 7 Executive order yoked . Vol.48, p. 12 69 . U.S.C.,p.1851 . to Paiute Rental payments . Powers conferred . re- Subdivisions . Municipality o f Saint Croix. Municipality o f Saint Thomas and Sain t John . Boundar ies . Capital at Thomas . "T he Government of the Virgin Isla nds" defined . Sain t Sain t Sain t
