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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 387, 388-JULY 27, 1939 Government for Indian use pursuant to the provisions of this Act. All such restorations shall be subject to valid existing rights and nsio inappli- claims: Provided, That no restoration to tribal ownership shall be cable to certain recla- made of any lands within any reclamation project heretofore author- mation projects. ized within the diminished or ceded portions of the reservation. thropriavaability, SEC. 6 . That the sum of $1,000,000 authorized in section 3 for reimbursement. use in carrying out the land purchase and consolidation program hereinbefore authorized shall remain available until expended and any amount expended shall be reimbursed with interest at 4 per centum per annum to the Shoshone Tribe of Indians of the Wind River Reservation from joint funds to the credit of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation or from future Title in trust for accruals to said joint fund, as and when said funds accrue. Title to all land purchases made hereunder shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of Purchasas, etc., su Indians of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. All purchases of lands or interests therein made pursuant to this section shall receive the approval of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Councils or of the business committees thereof. debiLty for prior SEc. 7. That in no event shall any portion of the Shoshone judg- ment fund become liable, payable, or subject to any debt or debts contracted prior to the passage of this Act by any Indian of the Shoshone Tribe except debts to the United States or to the tribe. Approved, July 27, 1939. July 27, 1939 IS. 21701 [Public, No. 239] [CHAPTER 388] AN ACT To improve the efficiency of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Seate and House of Representatives of the coast Guard. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last clause 36 Stat. a38. 33 U.s.. s 716. of section 9 of the Act approved June 17, 1910 (36 Stat., 538; U. S. C., title 33, sec. 716), is amended to read as follows: Temorary employ- "and the Commandant of the Coast Guard is authorized to employ ment of draftsmen, etc., at seat of govern- temporarily at the seat of government, draftsmen and engineers for me nt. the preparation of plans and specifications for vessels, lighthouses, aids to navigation, and other works for the Coast Guard that may be authorized or appropriated for by Congress, to be paid from the appropriations applicable to such works." Saint Loui, Mo., SEO. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to acquire by purchase and/or lease the necessary land for locating a Coast Guard depot at or in the vicinity of Saint Louis, Missouri, and he is author- ized to erect thereon such wharves, docks, buildings, or other struc- tures as he may determine to be necessary. Atlantic City, N.J., SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to purchase a site for a servicing base for the Coast Guard at or in the vicinity of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Yerba Buena slnd SEC. 4. The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer to the Military Reservation, alif.; transfer of por- Treasury Department for the use of the Coast Guard, the tract of tion o oast uard land no longer needed for military purposes and comprising the whole of tract numbered 2 of the United States Military Reservation on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, State of California, containing twenty-six and fifty-one one-hundredths acres, more or less, exclusive of the two parcels, together containing two and sixty- nine one-hundredths acres, now under the control and jurisdiction of the Navy Department, all as shown on map numbered 6797-101, entitled "Yerba Buena Island, California (Goat Island) Reservation Map", dated December 1935, revised to May 21, 1938, on file in the office of the Quartermaster General, War Department, Washington, 1130 [53 STAT.