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 1204 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. III. CHs. 268, 269. 1931 . . Filing of c laims for proceeds. Vol .34,p . 760. U.S. C., p. 201. Pay me nt of claims allowed. Not to exceed pro- ceeds and inte rest . Transfer of effects for safekeeping. Conflicting laws re- pealed. SEC. 3. (a) Claims for the net proceeds of effects may be filed with the Ge neral Ac counting Office at any t ime prio r to the expirat ion of six years from date of death of such deceased for action as authorized by law in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Army (Act of June 30, 1906 ; 34 Stat. 750; U. S. C ., title 10, s ec . 868), and, if not so filed, are barred from being acted on either by the courts or the accounting officers. (b) All claims for the net proceeds of such effects which are allowed by the General Accounting Office shall be certified to the treasurer of the home for payment by check, in the amount thus found due and accrue d intere st there on, from the fun d " Soldi ers' Ho me per manent fund (trust fund)," hereby appropriated therefor in such amount as necessary. No claim thus all owed or paid shall exceed the net procee ds and a ccrued i nterest derived from the particu lar esta te and covered into the Treasury as aforesaid. SEC. 4 . That the containers now in the possession of the General Accounting Office, in which are stored the effects enumerated in sec- tion 1 hereof, shall be transferred therefrom to the Soldiers' Home to , provide for the protection and safekeeping of such effects. SEC. 5. All laws and parts of laws, in so far as in conflict herewith, are repealed. Approved, February 21, 1931 . February 21, 1931. [ S. 655 7.1 CHAP. 269 .-An Act To amend the Act of May 23, 1930 (46 Stat . 378). [Public, No. 711 .1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the western Navajo In- United States o f America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of dlLadss: t d i o ;eiim. the Act of May 23, 1930 (46 Stat . 378), entitled "An Act to eliminate inated from Tusayan National Forest, Ariz . certai n lands from the Tusayan Nationa l Forest, Arizon a, as an addi- Ante, p. 378, amended . tion to the West ern Nava jo I ndia n Re serv atio n," be, and the same , is hereby, amended so as to include the following-described lands. Descr ipti on. subject to all the conditions and provisions of said Act : Section s 10 to 15, inclusive, sections 22 to 27, inclusive, sections 34 to 36, inclusive,, township 27 north, range 6 east, all of township 27 north, range 7 east ; sections 4 to 9, 16 to 21, 29 to 32, all inclusive, in township 27 north, range 8 east ; sections 1 and 2, the east half of section 3, the east half of section 10, sections 11 and 12, township 26 north, range. 7 east ; sections 5 to 8, inclusive, township 26 north, range 8 east,, Gila and Salt River meridian, Ariz ona. Full credit allowed SEC. 2. That for the purpose of arriving at the values and areas forva lue of i mprov e- ments. of lieu lands to which private landowners are entitled under the Act of May 23, 1930, as hereby amended, the value of the improvements on all privately owned lands to be conveyed or relinquished to the United States for the benefit of the Indians shall be taken into con- sideration and full credit in the form of lands shall be allowed there- Profliso. for : Provided, That the State of Arizona may relinquish such lands Relin quis hmen t of lands by Arizona. as it sees fit, acquired pursuant to the Enabling Act of June 20, 1910 Vol Righttoselecttothers. (36 Stat. L. 557), which may be desired as lieu land, and the State shall have the right to select other unreserved and undisposed of nonmineral public lands within the State of Arizona equal in area& to that relinquis hed, the lieu sele ctions t o be made by the S tate in t he same manner as is provided for in said Enabling Act. Approved, February 21, 1931.

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