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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 621. Portions of tribal lands to be held in trust by the United States; remainder to become part of the public domain
Title to the lands and the improvements thereon, lying and
situated within the State of New Mexico, which have been acquired
by the United States under authority of title II of the National
Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935 (49 Stat. 115),
section 55 of title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750,
781), the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (50 Stat. 522, 525) and
subsequent emergency relief appropriation Acts administrative
jurisdiction over which has heretofore been transferred by the
President from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the
Interior, to be administered through the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs for the benefit of the Indians, by Executive Orders
Numbered 7792, 7975, 8255, 8471, 8696, and 8472 and that title to
the public domain lands and improvements thereon, lying and
situated within the State of New Mexico, which were withdrawn in
aid of proposed legislation by the Secretary of the Interior on
December 23, 1938, and May 31, 1939, and now in use by Pueblo or
Canoncito Navajo Indians, excepting those portions thereof used by
the United States for administrative purposes, is declared to be in
the United States of America in trust for the respective tribes,
bands, or groups of Indians occupying and using same as a part of
their respective existing reservations, subject to valid existing
rights. The remainder of the aforesaid land is declared to be a
part of the public domain of the United States and shall be
transferred by the Secretary of the Interior to the Bureau of Land
Management for administration under the provisions of the Act of
Congress of June 28, 1934, generally known as Taylor Grazing Act
[43 U.S.C. 315 et seq.] (48 Stat. 1269, as amended). The boundaries
and descriptions of the areas to become Indian lands and those
which are to be transferred to the Bureau of Land Management are
set out in sections III and IV, respectively, of the memorandum of
information which is attached to and a part of the report of the
Secretary of the Interior to the Senate Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs on this subchapter, and such boundaries and
descriptions are adopted as part of this subchapter and shall be
published in the Federal Register: Provided, That before said
boundaries and descriptions are published in the Federal Register
as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior may correct any
clerical errors in section III of said memorandum of information
and shall revise the same so as to define the areas on that portion
of the lands conveyed by this subchapter and known as Bell Rock
Mesa used and occupied respectively by the Laguna Pueblo Indians
and the Canoncito Navajo Indians.
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