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 PRIVATE LAWS-CHS. 248 -250 -MAY 3, 1948 [CHAPTER 248] AN ACTq [62 STAT. May 3, 1948 [S. 608] Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to [Private Law 264] Growing Four Times. Growing Four Times. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, upon appli- cation in writing, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to Growing Four Times, of Frazier, Montana, a patent in fee to the following-described allotted lands situated in the State of Montana: The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter, of section 5, town- ship 26 north, range 45 east, Montana principal meridian: Provided, That when the land herein described is offered for sale, the Fort Peck Tribe or any Indian who is a member of said tribe shall have ninety days in which to execute preferential rights to purchase said tract at a price offered to the seller by a prospective buyer willing and able to purchase. Approved May 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 249] AN AVT May 3, 1948 IS. 714] Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent in fee to Claude E. [Private Law 265] Milliken. Claude E. Milliken. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, upon appli- cation in writing, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to Claude E. Milliken, of Billings, Montana, a patent in fee to the following-described lands allotted to him on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana: Allotment numbered 144, the north half, the north half of the south half and the south half of the south- west quarter, of section 21, township 4 south, range 28 east, containing five hundred and sixty acres, and the north half of the northwest quarter of section 24, township 5 south, range 26 east, Montana prin- cipal meridian, containing eighty acres: Provided, That when the land herein described is offered for sale, the Crow Tribe or any Indian who is a member of said tribe shall have ninety days in which to execute preferential rights to purchase said tract at a price offered to the seller by a prospective buyer willing and able to purchase. Approved May 3, 1948. [CHAPTER 250] May 3, 1948 [H. R. 344] [Private Law 266] Sylvester T. Star- ling. AN ACT For the relief of Sylvester T. Starling. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Sylvester T. Starling, route numbered 1, Hope Mills, North Carolina, the sum of $767.58. The payment of such sum shall be in full settlement of all claims of the said Sylvester T. Starling against the United States on account of or in connection with the amount he was required by the Army to pay for damages to a three-fourths-ton weapons carrier, United States Numbered 270825, when said weapons carrier was in collision with another Army vehicle in New Guinea on July 12,1943: Provided,That 1342

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