Volume 75
Public Law 87–48
To terminate the existence of the Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes.
Approved June 16, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To terminate the existence of the Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 23 of the Indian Claims Commission Act approved August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1049, 1055; 25 U.S.C. sec. 70v), is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 23.
The existence of the Commission shall terminate at the end of five years from and after April 10, 1962, or at such earlier time as the Commission shall have made its final report to the Congress on all claims filed with it. Upon its dissolution the records of the Commission shall be delivered to the Archivist of the United States.”
Approved June 16, 1961.