Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 445a. Rights and privileges of Navajo Indians in canyons
Statutory text
Nothing herein shall be construed as in any way impairing the right, title, and interest of the Navajo Tribe of Indians which they now have and hold to all lands and minerals, including oil and gas, and the surface use of such lands for agricultural, grazing, and other purposes, except as defined in section 445b of this title; and the said tribe of Indians is granted the preferential right, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, of furnishing riding animals for the use of visitors to the monument.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 71–188 § 2 · 46 Stat. 1161
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 445a
(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 2, 46 Stat. 1161.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 2, 46 Stat. 1161.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That nothing herein shall be construed as in any way Rights of Indians reserved. impairing the right, title, and interest of the Navajo Tribe of Indians which they now have and hold to all lands and minerals, including oil and gas, and the surface use of such lands for agricultural, grazing, and other purposes, except as hereinafter defined; and the said tribe of Indians shall be, and is hereby, granted the preferential right, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, of furnishing riding animals for the use of visitors to the monument.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means act , which is classified to sections 445 to 445b of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Credits
(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 2, 46 Stat. 1161.)