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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 524, 525-JUNE 20, 1938 [CHAPTER 524] [52 STAT. June 20, 193 AN ACT Is. 3415] To purchase certain private lands within the Shoshone (Wind River) Indian [Public, No. 674] Reservation. Shoshone (Wind River) Indian Reser- vation, Wyo. Purchase of certain private lands within, authorized. Description. June 20. 1938 [s. 3426] [Public, No. 675] Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. Repayment to, of unpaid share of con- struction costs for con- servation, etc. Appropriation au- thorized. Description oflands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon con- veyance to the United States of America in trust for the Indians of the Shoshone (Wind River) Reservation, Wyoming, of title, satis- factory to the Secretary of the Interior, to the lands described below, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to A. L. Simpson, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, the sum of $2,700: The northeast quarter north- west quarter section 26, southeast quarter southwest quarter section 23, and a tract beginning at the southwest corner of the southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence north one thousand and forty-two feet; thence south forty-six degrees fifty-one minutes east approximately nine hundred and seven and three-tenths feet to the east line of the west half southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence south to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter southeast quarter northwest quarter section 23; thence west to the point of beginning, all being in township 1 south, range 3 east, Wind River meridian, Wyoming, containing approximately ninety-one and one hundred and seven one-thousandths acres. Approved, June 20, 1938. [CHAPTER 525] AN ACT To authorize an appropriation for repayment to the Middle Rio Grande Con- servancy District, a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, of the share of the said district's construction and operation and maintenance costs applicable to certain properties owned by the United States, situate in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, within the exterior boundaries of the district; to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract with said district for future operation and maintenance charges against said lands; to authorize appropriation for extra construction work performed by said district for the special benefit of certain Pueblo Indian lands and to authorize appropriation for construction expendi- tures benefiting certain acquired lands of Pueblo Indians of the State of New Mexico. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Retresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,470.71 for repayment to the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, a corporate political sub- division of the State of New Mexico, of the unpaid share of the construction costs of said district for conservation, irrigation, drain- age, and flood control applicable to the following-described lands in the county of Bernalillo, State of New Mexico, within the exterior boundaries of said district: One hundred and forty-two and nine one-hundredths acres in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, known and described as the Lands of the Albuquerque Indian School of the Department of the Interior, United States of America, the lands so described being owned by the United States and having been materially benefited by the construction works of the said district, and the share of the costs of such construction having been determined by an appraisal of benefits made by the said district's board of appraisers at the same time and in the same manner and on the same basis as appraisals made against other lands in the said district, and the assessments made thereon by the Board of com- 778

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