Volume 50 · 700
Public Law 75–702
To authorize the acquisition by the United States of certain tribally owned lands of the Indians of the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, for the Wind River irrigation project.
Approved August 19, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the acquisition by the United States of certain tribally owned lands of the Indians of the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, for the Wind River irrigation project.
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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States for the use and benefit of the Wind River Indian irrigation project, Shoshone Indian Reservation, Wyoming,
Description.
at the appraised value thereof, the east half southeast quarter section 8; the east half northeast quarter and northwest quarter southeast quarter section 17; the north half north half northeast quarter section 20; and the north half northwest quarter northwest quarter section 21, all in township 1 south, range 2 west, Wind River Meridian, Wyoming, and not to exceed $650 of the allotment made by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works to the Indian Service for Federal project 266–Indian, may be used for this
Deposit to credit of Indians.
purpose. The amount herein authorized shall be deposited to the credit of the Indians of the Shoshone Reservation as proceeds of labor, Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians, Wyoming, and shall be subject to expenditure pursuant to the provisions of existing laws:
Proviso.
Extinguishment of title, etc.
Provided, That such deposit of funds shall operate as a full, complete, and perfect extinguishment of all right, title, and interest the Indians may possess in and to the land herein described.
Approved, August 19, 1937.