Indian Heirship Land Problem: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress ... |
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Page 383 - The subject of this legislation is not a matter for which the Department of Justice has primary responsibility, and accordingly we make no recommendation as to the enactment of the bill.
Page 379 - SEC. 716. (a) This title shall become effective one year after the date of its enactment (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), sections of this title other than sections 703, 704, 706, and 707 shall become effective immediately.
Page 383 - US Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOR : This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice on S.
Page 384 - Revolving loan fund means all funds that are now or hereafter a part of the revolving fund authorized by the act of June 18. 1934 (48 Stat. 986), the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1968), and the Act of April 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 44), as amended and supplemented including sums received in settlement of debts for livestock pursuant to the Act of May 24, 1950 (64 Stat.
Page 398 - No part of any of the funds which may be distributed shall be subject to any lien, debt, or claim of any nature whatsoever against the Tribe or individual Indians, except delinquent debts owed by the Tribe to the United States, or owed by individual Indians to the Tribe or to the United States.
Page 398 - ... nation or delinquent debts owed to the United States or the Seneca Nation by the individual Seneca Indian entitled to the compensation : Provided, That such compensation shall not be applied to the payment of individual delinquent debts to the United States unless the Secretary of the Interior first determines and certifies that no hardship will result from the payment of such delinquent debts.
Page 440 - TRIBAL COUNCIL OF THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE WARM SPRINGS RESERVATION OF OREGON Mr.
Page 378 - The appropriation authorization in section 10 of the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 986), as amended by the Act of September 15, 1961 (75 Stat.
Page 375 - Jiscussed in meetings held with Congressman Harold T. Johnson, representatives of Senator Kuche.l's office, staff members of the Senate and House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs. In those meetings the real problem of evaluation was handled for existing facilities on the basis that they would be valued at cost less depreciation. It is noteworthy that on this basis such facilities will be transferred to the United States at a value less than what they are probably worth, in view...
Page 376 - ... cases where a particular tract of land is so held for more than one Indian, acquire such land without the consent of all of the beneficial owners if the acquisition is agreed to by the owners of not less than a 50 per centum interest in any land where ten or fewer persons own undivided interests or by the owners of not less than a 25 per centum interest in any land where eleven or more persons own undivided interests. The Secretary may...