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 590 Repeal.

Removal of legal irr5)ediment.

Consent of U. S. to other States.

Repeals.

Livestock. 62 Stat. 759.

25 USC 461-509 passim.

Repeal.

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Oklahoma. Conveyance.

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CHAPTER 506

AN ACT To terminate certain Federal restrictions upon Indians.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 467 and 2136 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C. sec. 266) and section 2135 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C. sec. 265), all of the said laws being laws which forbid the sale, purchase, or possession by Indians or personal property which may be sold, purchased, or possessed by non-Indians, are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. (a) Section 1157 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended, is further amended by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following: ": Provided, That this section shall apply only to livestock purchased by or for Indians with funds provided from the revolving loan fund established pursuant to the Acts of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended and supplemented, or from tribal loan funds used under regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, and to livestock issued to Indians as loans repayable 'in kind', and to the increase of all such livestock, and only until such time as such loans are repaid: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of any purchaser of Indian livestock to use reasonable diligence to ascertain that such livestock are not subject to such loans." (b) Section 1 of the Act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stat. 94, 25 U.S.C. sec. 195), is repealed. Approved August 15, 1953. Public Law 282

August 15, 1953 [H. R. 4508]

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SEC. 5. Section 1 of the Act of October 5, 1949 (63 Stat. 705, ch. 604), is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any proceedings heretofore instituted under that section. SEC. 6. Notwithstanding the provisions of any Enabling Act for the admission of a State, the consent of the United States is hereby given to the people of any State to amend, where necessary, their State constitution or existing statutes, as the case may be, to remove any legal impediment to the assumption of civil and criminal jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not become effective with respect to such assumption of jurisdiction by any such State until the people thereof have appropriately amended their State constitution or statutes as the case may be. SEC. 7. The consent of the United States is hereby given to any other State not having jurisdiction with respect to criminal offenses or civil causes of action, or with respect to both, as provided for in this Act, to assume jurisdiction at such time and in such manner as the people of the State shall, by affirmative legislative action, obligate and bind the State to assumption thereof. Approved August 15, 1953. Public Law 281

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PUBLIC LAW 281-AUG. 15, 1953

CHAPTER 507

AN ACT To authorize the sale of certain lands to the State of Oklahoma.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary

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