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60 Stat. 762. 42 USC 1805.

48 USC 432-452. 30 USC 22-263 passim, 2 7 1-2 7 6, 281-284.

P U B U C LAW 251-AUG. 12, 1953

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SEC. 3. The rights under any mining claim given force and effect by this Act shall also be subject to the reservation to the United States specified in section 5(b)(7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, and, in addition, any reservation or reservations required by any other provision or provisions of law; and any patent issued for such mining claim shall contain such reservations. SEC. 4. Except as this Act provides for (a) validation of certain mining claims located on lands described in section 1 of this Act, and (b) the modification and amendment of certain withdrawals or reservations of land, nothing in this Act shall affect any power or authority duly vested in the Atomic Energy Commission or any other agency, department or officer of the United States to make leases, withdrawals, reservations or other arrangements with respect to source materials as defined in section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended. SEC. 5. As used in this Act "mineral leasing laws" shall mean the Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741); the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437); the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301); the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts. Approved August 12, 1953. Public Law 251

August 12, 1953 [H. R. 5328]

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CHAPTER 406

AN ACT To provide for the use of the tribal funds of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, to authorize a per capita payment out of such funds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the TrYbl. **°""*®^" United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding any other provisions of existing laws, the tribal funds now on niMrt! ''^"^ P°^' deposit or hereafter deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, may be expended or advanced for such purposes and in a manner, including per capita payments, the purchase of land or any interests therein or improvements thereon and water rights, as may be designated by the Ute Mountain Tribal Council and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the purchase of taxable lands under this authority shall not operate to remove such lands from the tax rolls: Provided further, That neither the transfer to the tribe of tribal funds, nor the distribution thereof to individual members of the tribe, as provided herein, from those funds consisting of compensation for lands acquired by the United States Government, shall be subject to Federal tax: And provided, further, That any funds advanced for loans by the tribe to individual Indians or associations of Indians shall be subject to regulations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund authorized by the Act of June 48 Stat. 986. 18, 1934 (25 U.S.C. sec. 470). Restriction. SEC. 2. No part of the funds authorized to be expended or advanced pursuant to section 1 shall be paid or disbursed to or received by any agent or attorney on account of any contract for services rendered or to be rendered or expenses in the preparation of any suit against the United States. Approved August 12, 1953.

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