Volume 50
Public Law 75–778
To authorize the reservation of minerals in future sales of lands of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma.
Approved August 25, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the reservation of minerals in future sales of lands of the Choctaw-Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter, in all sales of tribal lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians in Oklahoma provided for by existing law, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to offer such lands for sale subject to a reservation of the mineral rights therein, including oil and gas, for the benefit of said Indians, whenever in his judgment the interests of the Indians will best be served thereby.
Approved, August 25, 1937.