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 PUBLIC LAW 109–47—AUG. 2, 2005

119 STAT. 451

Public Law 109–47 109th Congress An Act To correct the south boundary of the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona, and for other purposes.

Aug. 2, 2005 [H.R. 794]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE, FINDINGS, PURPOSES.

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Colorado River Indian Reservation Boundary Correction Act’’. (b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: (1) The Act of March 3, 1865, created the Colorado River Indian Reservation (hereinafter ‘‘Reservation’’) along the Colorado River in Arizona and California for the ‘‘Indians of said river and its tributaries’’. (2) In 1873 and 1874, President Grant issued Executive Orders to expand the Reservation southward and to secure its southern boundary at a clearly recognizable geographic location in order to forestall non-Indian encroachment and conflicts with the Indians of the Reservation. (3) In 1875, Mr. Chandler Robbins surveyed the Reservation (hereinafter ‘‘the Robbins Survey’’) and delineated its new southern boundary, which included approximately 16,000 additional acres (hereinafter ‘‘the La Paz lands’’), as part of the Reservation. (4) On May 15, 1876, President Grant issued an Executive Order that established the Reservation’s boundaries as those delineated by the Robbins Survey. (5) In 1907, as a result of increasingly frequent trespasses by miners and cattle and at the request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the General Land Office of the United States provided for a resurvey of the southern and southeastern areas of the Reservation. (6) In 1914, the General Land Office accepted and approved a resurvey of the Reservation conducted by Mr. Guy Harrington in 1912 (hereinafter the ‘‘Harrington Resurvey’’) which confirmed the boundaries that were delineated by the Robbins Survey and established by Executive Order in 1876. (7) On November 19, 1915, the Secretary of the Interior reversed the decision of the General Land Office to accept the Harrington Resurvey, and upon his recommendation on November 22, 1915, President Wilson issued Executive Order No. 2273 ‘‘. . . to correct the error in location said southern boundary line. . .’’—and thus effectively excluded the La Paz lands from the Reservation.

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