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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 137-139-MAY 28, 1941 [CHAPTER 137] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation, and providing reimbursement therefor". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 606), entitled "An Act authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation, and providing reim- bursement therefor", be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for each fiscal year, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for maintenance of that portion of the Federal-aid highway from Gallup, New Mexico, to Shiprock, New Mexico, across the Navajo Indian Reservation and that portion of the State highway in New Mexico between Gallup, New Mexico, and Window Rock, Arizona, serving the Navajo Reservation, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Indians of said reservation: Provided,That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable: And provided further, That if no funds are available no expenditure shall be made.' Approved, May 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 138] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement fixing boundary lines on Wind River Indian lands, Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to determine and fix permanently the boundaries of allotted, tribal, and ceded Indian lands along the Big Wind River in sections 21, 22, 27, and 28, township 3 north, range 1 west, Wind River meridian, in Wyoming: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall not act until all of the owners, white and Indian, shall have given their con- sent in writing to the permanent location of the boundaries so far as they affect their respective lands. The consent of the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes as to tribal and ceded lands may be given by the tribal business council. The consent on behalf of the minors, Indians non compos mentis, and Indians who cannot be located after adver- tisement and reasonable search for not less than thirty days may be executed by the Superintendent in charge of the Wind River Indian Agency. Approved, May 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 139] AN ACT May 28, 1941 [S. 1296] [Public Law 78] Navajo Indian Res- ervation. Maintenance of highways. Annual appropria- tions authorized. Post, p. 328. Provisos. May 28,1941 [11. R. 2672] [Public Law 79] Wind River Indian lands, N yo. Fixing of boundary lilies. I orliso. Consent of owners. May 28,1941 To amend the Act of May 24, 1940 (Public, Numbered 520, Seventy-sixth [H. R. 3362] Congress). [Public Law 80] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of May 24, 1940 (Public, Numbered 520, Seventy-sixth Con- gress), entitled "An Act to authorize the purchase of certain lands Turtle Mountain Reservation, N. Dak. 207

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