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In township 18 north, range 13 west of the Indian meridian; the north half and southwest quarter of section 5; all of section 6; in township 19 north, range 13 west of the Indian meridian; southwest quarter of section 20, except those portions thereof situated below an elevation of one thousand six hundred and forty-two feet above mean sea level; all of section 29, except lot 3, south half southeast quarter, northwest quarter southeast quarter, and except also all those portions of lots 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 and northeast quarter northeast quarter and west half northwest quarter and southeast quarter northwest quarter and southwest quarter situated below an elevation of one thousand six hundred and forty-two feet above mean sea level; southeast quarter and south half northeast quarter of section 30, except those portions thereof situated below an elevation of one thousand six hundred and forty-two feet above mean sea level; east half of section 31, except those portions thereof lying below an elevation of one thousand six hundred and forty-two feet above mean sea level. All of section 32 except the northeast quarter and north half southeast quarter and a strip one hundred feet wide in the south half northwest quarter, being fifty feet on each side of the following-described center line; Beginning at a point on the west boundary of said section two thousand four hundred and ninety feet south of the northwest corner thereof, thence easterly parallel to the latitudinal quarter section line two thousand six hundred and forty-three feet to the meridional quarter section line, and except also that part of the north half of the northwest quarter situated below an elevation of one thousand six hundred and forty-two feet above mean sea level. pai byery toa SEC. 2. That any person duly enrolled as a member of an Indian dians. tribe who received in pursuance of a tribal treaty or agreement with the United States an allotment of land which, by the terms of said treaty or agreement was exempted from taxation, restricted against alienation, or which by the terms of any Act of Congress was continued under the supervision of the United States during the minority of such allottee, and from which land the restrictions have or have not been removed, and any such enrolled member of an Indian tribe having restricted money in the custody and control of the United States, prior to April 26, 1931, and who was required or permitted to pay any Federal income tax on such lands or on the rents, royalties, or other gains arising from such lands during such restricted or tax-exempt period or on income from such restricted funds while in the custody or control of the United States, or on income from any allotment during the minority of the allottee, or any such person who has been erroneously or illegally taxed by reason of not having claimed or received the benefit of any deductions or exemptions permitted by law, and who would be entitled under this or previous Acts or rulings of the Treasury Department in similar Indian cases to a refund of the taxes so illegally or erroneously collected, but for the fact that he failed to file a claim for such Flingo. refund within the time prescribed by law shall be allowed two years after the approval of this Act within which to file such claim, and if otherwise entitled thereto he may recover such taxes in the same manner and to the same extent as if such claims for refund had been theretofore duly filed as required by law, it not being the policy of the Government to invoke or plead a statute of limitations to escape the obligations of agreement solemnly entered into with its Indian wards, or prior to April 26, 1931, to exact for its own use and benefit an income tax from them while their property continued under the Proi. supervision of the United States and/or during the minority of any Heirs permitted to such allottee: Provided, however, That in the case of the death of a e lims. member of an Indian tribe his heirs who succeeded to his allotment 22 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 24-JAN . 29, 1942 [56 STAT.