Volume 97 · 1383
Public Law 98–203
To declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe.
Approved December 2, 1983
Statutory text
An Act
To declare that the United States holds certain lands in trust for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
subject to the provisions of subsection (b), all right, title, and interest of the United States in the following lands (including all improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto) located in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the benefit and use of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and are hereby declared to be part of the Las Vegas Paiute Reservation:
Township 18 south, range 59 east, Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 36, 640 acres more or less, excepting therefrom that certain strip of land 400 feet in width bearing north-westerly through said section for the purposes of right-of-way for United States Highway numbered 95. Reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 18 south, range 59 east. Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 35, 640 acres more or less, excepting there-from that certain strip of land 400 feet in width bearing north-westerly through said section for the purposes of right-of-way for United States Highway numbered 95. Reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 18 south, range 59 east, Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 26, 640 acres more or less, excepting there-from that certain strip of land 400 feet in width bearing north-westerly through said section for the purposes of right-of-way for United States Highway numbered 95. Reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 18 south, range 59 east. Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 27, 640 acres more or less, excepting there-from that certain strip of land 400 feet in width bearing north-westerly through said section for the purposes of right-of-way for United States Highway numbered 95. Reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 18 south, range 59 east, Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 25, 640 acres more or less, reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 18 south, range 59 east, Mount Diablo base line and meridian, section 34, 640 acres more or less, reservations, restrictions, and conditions, if any; rights-of-way and assessors either of record or actually existing on said premises.
Township 20 south, range 61 east, Mount Diablo base line and meridian, 10 acres of land within section 27 as acquired by the United States for the use of Paiute Indians by deed dated December 30, 1911, said deed being of record in book 2, page 246 in Clark County, Nevada.
Right or interest.
Nothing in this section shall deprive any person of any right-of-way, mining claim, grazing permit, water right, or other right or interest which such person may have in land described in subsection (a) on the date preceding the date of enactment of this Act.
Section 1 of the Act of August 9, 1955 (69 Stat. 539), as amended (25 U.S.C. 415), is further amended by inserting “, and lands held in trust for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe of Indians,” immediately after “Chelan County, Washington,”.
Section 164 of the Act of July 14, 1955 (69 Stat. 322, 42 U.S.C. 7474), as amended, shall be applied without regard to the provisions of subsection (a).
Approved December 2, 1983.