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PUBLIC LAW 89-364-MAR. 8, 1966
(4) Administrative site in the Borrego grant, comprising four hmidred and twenty-eight acres, more or less, excluding minerals therein, to the Indians of the Pueblo of Zia. SEC. 2. The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1050), the extent to which the value of lands and improvements placed in a trust status under the authority of this Act should or should not be set off against any claim against the United States determined by the Commission. Approved March 7, 1966.
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Public Law 89-364 JOINT RESOLUTION To cancel any unpaid reimbursable construction costs of the Wind River Indian irrigation project, Wyoming, chargeable against certain non-Indian lands.
March 8, 1966
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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Wind River States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) all reimbursable dian ^ ^ ^^^ irrigationIn^ construction costs heretofore incurred at the Wind Kiver Indian irri- proj'ectVVyo"' gation project, Wyoming, shall be allocated against the total irrigable ^^^"s"^^""" acreage in the project according to the present land classifications. (b) The costs so allocated to land that passed out of Indian ownership prior to March 7, 1928, shall be canceled by the Secretary of the Interior if the patent from the United States contained no recital to the effect that the land is subject to irrigation construction charges, and the purchaser did not sign a contract to pay construction charges. Such cancellation, however, shall take effect with respect to any individual landowner when and only when the said owner obligates himself, his heirs, and assigns by contract satisfactory in form and substance to the Secretary that he will pay all reasonable construction charges incurred after the date of this Act in connection with the Wind River Indian irrigation project which are allocated to his land as provided in this Act and that such charges, if not paid, shall be a lien against the land. (c) Land that passed out of Indian ownership prior to March 7, ^^"'^ subject to 1928, shall, if the patent from the United States contains a recital to the effect that the land is subject to irrigation construction charges, either past or future, be subject to a lien in favor of the United States for such charges. (d) Reimbursable construction charges hereafter incurred at the constmc't-^on^^ Wind River Indian irrigation project, Wyoming, shall be allocated charges! '°" against all irrigable acreage in the project according to land classifications then in effect, shall be a lien against the land, and shall not be subject to cancellation on the ground that the land was conveyed with a paid-up construction charge. Any such paid-up construction charge shall be deemed to mean a construction charge incurred prior to the date of this Act. Approved March 8, 1966.
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