Volume 75
Public Law 87–229
To give to the Walker River Paiute Tribe the reserved minerals underlying its reservation.
Approved September 14, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To give to the Walker River Paiute Tribe the reserved minerals underlying its reservation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all lands set
Indians.
Walker River Paiute Tribe, Nev. Mineral rights.
aside and added to the Walker River Indian Reservation, Nevada, by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of section 2 of the Act of June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1806), are hereby withdrawn from all forms of exploration, location, and entry under the public land mining laws and the minerals underlying such lands are hereby made a part of the reservation to be held in trust by the United States of America subject to valid existing rights, and such minerals shall be subject to lease for mining purposes pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347; 25 U.S.C. 396a–g) as amended or
supplemented.
Approved September 14, 1961.