Private Law 74–572

That the Secretary

Victoria Arconge.

Land patent to, canceled.

of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cancel the patent in fee numbered 527856 issued to Victoria Arconge under date of May 8, 1916, covering her allotment of land on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, described as follows: Lots 582, 583, 586, and 587 of the Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota, containing one hundred and sixty acres, and to issue to her a trust patent in lieu thereof covering the same land to be held in trust for her sole use and benefit or, in case of her decease, for the sole use and benefit of her lawful heirs or devisees for the same period under the same conditions as other trust allotments are held on that reservation as extended by the last proclamation of the President relating to the said reservation: Provided, That any valid

Proviso.

Existing encumbrances.

encumbrances now resting against any of said land shall not in any manner be affected by the provisions of this Act, but any of such land so encumbered, if still owned by the allottee, heirs, or devisees, shall, when such encumbrances have been removed, become subject to the provisions of this Act as fully and to the same intent as if such land were now unencumbered.