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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 325, 326-MAY 20, 1948 May 20,1948 [H. R. 5118] [Public Law 542] Flathead Reserva- tion, Mont. Sale of individual land. 25U.S.C.§§461- 479. May 20, 1948 [H. R . 5651] [Public Law 543] Sioux Sanatorium Farm, Rapid City, S. Dak. Conveyance. Reversion to U. S. Conveyance to church organization. Rehabilitation of needy Indians. [CHAPTER 325] AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain individual Indian land on the Flathead Reservation to the State of Montana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Clara Keenan Dumontier, a Flathead Indian, is hereby authorized to sell and convey to the State of Montana the following-described tract of land held by the United States in trust for her under the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), said conveyance to be made by an appropriate warranty deed approved by the Secre- tary of the Interior or his authorized representative: A tract of land in the north half of the southwest quarter, section 1, township 16 north, range 20 west, Montana principal meridian; more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of the said north half southwest corner, section 1, thence from the said point of beginning northerly along the west line of the said point of beginning northerly along the west line of the said section 1, two hundred and fourteen and five-tenths feet, to a point; thence south eighty degrees forty-eight minutes east one thousand three hundred and forty and five-tenths feet, to a point, on the south line of the said north half of the southwest quarter, section 1; thence westerly along the south line of the said north half of the southwest quarter, section 1, one thousand three hundred and twenty-three and three-tenths feet, to the said point of beginning, containing three and twenty-six hundredths acres, more or less. Approved May 20, 1948. [CHAPTER 326] AN ACT Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in South Dakota for municipal or public purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to convey without com- pensation any lands contained in the Sioux Sanatorium Farm at Rapid City, South Dakota, not necessary for the administration and opera- tion of the Sioux Indian Sanatorium, to the city of Rapid City for municipal purposes, or to any public-school district for educational purposes, or to the State of South Dakota for use of the South Dakota National Guard: Provided, That the title to any lands so conveyed shall revert to the United States of America when the land is no longer used for the purposes for which such lands were initially conveyed. The Secretary may also in his discretion convey to any church organi- zation for religious purposes, upon receipt of the reasonable value of such lands, any of such lands not conveyed for any of the purposes above named. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized in his dis- cretion to utilize any of the said lands for the rehabilitation of needy Indians, and to exchange any of such lands for other lands in or near Rapid City more suitable for this purpose. Approved May 20, 1948. 248 [G2 STAT.