Volume 52
Public Law 75–145
For the benefit of the Goshute and other Indians, and for other purposes.
Approved April 13, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the benefit of the Goshute and other Indians, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever the privately owned lands, commonly referred to as the Triune Ranch, within the following-described area have been purchased and acquired as hereafter authorized, the following-described lands be, and hereby are, set aside as a permanent reservation for the benefit of the Goshute and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may locate thereon:
Description.
The east half section 1; east half section 12; northeast quarter section 13, township 22 north, range 69 east; sections 1 to 18, inclusive; east half section 24, east half section 25, east half section 36, township 23 north, range 69 east (unsurveyed); all of township 24 north, range 69 east (unsurveyed) ; sections 3 to 10, inclusive; north half; north half south half; southwest quarter of southwest quarter section 15; east half section 16; northwest quarter; north half north-east quarter section 17; north half section 18; northeast quarter section 21; west half northwest quarter section 22; fractional township 22 north, range 70 east; all of fractional township 23 north, range 70 east, (unsurveyed); all of fractional township 24 north, range 70 east, except lot 5; northeast quarter southwest quarter and north half section 3, Mount Diablo base and meridian, Nevada.
Prior rights not affected.
This extension shall not affect any valid rights initiated prior to the approval hereof.
Sec. 2.
That for the use and benefit of the Indians on the Goshute Reservation and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may locate thereon, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase with any available funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated pursuant to authority contained in section 5 of
the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. L. 984), all privately owned lands, interest in lands, water rights, or improvements upon the public domain within the area described in section 1 hereof and including all chattels located on that part of what is known as the Triune
Title to be taken in trust for Indians.
Ranch, located in said area. Title to the foregoing property to be acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be taken in trust for such Goshute and other Indians as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, April 13, 1938.