Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12D — Columbia Basin Project
§ 835e. Payment for lands acquired from Spokane and Colville Reservations
Statutory text
As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under sections 835d to 835h of this title, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. As to the tribal lands, the amounts so determined shall be transferred in the Treasury of the United States from the funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of the Columbia Basin project to the credit of the appropriate tribe pursuant to the provisions of section 155 of title 25. The amounts due individual landowners or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of said project to the superintendent of the Colville Indian Agency or such other officer as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior for credit on the books of said agency to the accounts of the individuals concerned.
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. 76–460 § 2 · 54 Stat. 703
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 835e
June 29, 1940, ch. 460, § 2, 54 Stat. 703
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 29, 1940, ch. 460, § 2, 54 Stat. 703Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to Compensation to Indians. time under this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. As to the tribal lands, the amounts so Credit of funds to appropriate tribe. determined shall be transferred in the Treasury of the United States from the funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam project to the credit of the appropriate tribe pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 25 U. S. C. § 155. 560). The amounts due individual landowners or their heirs or Payments to individual landowners. devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available for the construction of said project to the superintendent of the Colville Indian Agency or such other officer as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior for credit on the books of said agency to the accounts of the individuals concerned.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Act , as amended by act , changed name of project from “Grand Coulee Dam” to “Columbia Basin”.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1937–1943 · 3 acts
- 1940June 29, 1940, ch. 460, § 2, 54 Stat. 703
- 1937May 27, 1937, ch. 269, § 1, 50 Stat. 208
- 1943Mar. 10, 1943, ch. 14, 57 Stat. 14.
Show as published
(June 29, 1940, ch. 460, § 2, 54 Stat. 703; May 27, 1937, ch. 269, § 1, 50 Stat. 208; Mar. 10, 1943, ch. 14, 57 Stat. 14.)