Volume 53
Public Law 76–154
To provide for the correction of the list of approved Pine Ridge lost allotment claims, and for other purposes.
Approved May 26, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the correction of the list of approved Pine Ridge lost allotment claims, and for other purposes.
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 correct the list of nine hundred and seventy-nine Pine Ridge Sioux lost allotment claims, approved December 18, 1936, under the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 484), by eliminating certain names erroneously placed thereon and
Provisos.
Limitation.
the substitution of others in lieu thereof: Provided, That the total number of approved claims shall not exceed nine hundred and seventy-nine:
Payment; funds authorized.
And, provided further, That such part of the appropriation authorized by the Act of June 29, 1937 (50 Stat. 441), as would have been used to pay those to be eliminated shall be used to pay those to be substituted.
Approved, May 26, 1939.