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Volume 52 · 778

Public Law 75–524

To purchase certain private lands within the Shoshone (Wind River) Indian Reservation.

Approved June 20, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To purchase certain private lands within the Shoshone (Wind River) Indian Reservation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That upon conveyance to the United States of America in trust for the Indians of the Shoshone (Wind River) Reservation, Wyoming, of title, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, to the lands described below, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to A. L. Simpson, out of any money in the Treasury not

Description.

otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,700: The northeast quarter northwest quarter section 26, southeast quarter southwest quarter section 23, and a tract beginning at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence north one thousand and forty-two feet; thence south forty-six degrees fifty-one minutes east approximately nine hundred and seven and three-tenths feet to the east line of the west half southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence south to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence west to the point of beginning, all being in township 1 south, range 3 east, Wind River meridian, Wyoming, containing approximately ninety-one and one hundred and seven one-thousandths acres.

Approved, June 20, 1938.

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