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PUBLIC LAW 284-AUG. 15, 1953

Public Law 284 August 15, 1953 ^. R. 4483]

S h o s h o n e and Arapahoe Tribes. Compensation.

25 USC 611-613. Ante, p. 179.

Wind R i v e r Indian Reservation. Ceded lands.

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ST A T.

CHAPTER 509 AN ACT

To provide compensation to the Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes of Indians for certain lands of the Riverton reclamation project within the ceded portion of the Wind River Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress a^sevribled, That there is hereby authorized to be transferred in the Treasury of the United States from funds now or hereafter made available for carrying on the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation and to be placed to the credit of the Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes of Indians of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, the sum of $1,009,500, said sum shall be credited to and expended for the benefit of said tribes and their members as provided by the Act of May 19, 1947 (61 Stat. 10^), as amended by the Act of August 30, 1951 (65 Stat. 208), and by the Act of July 17, 1953 (Public Law 132, Eighty-third Congress), and as may be hereinafter amended, and shall be deemed to constitute full, complete, and final compensation, except as provided in section 5 of this Act, for terminating and extinguishing all of the right, title, estate, and interest, including minerals, gas and oil, of said Indian tribes and their members of, in and to the lands, interests in lands, and any and all past and future damages arising out of the cession to the United States, pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1016) of that part of the former Wind River Indian Reservation lying within the following described boundaries: The perimeter boundaries of the tract of land, dealt with hereinabove, they being also the proposed exterior boundaries of the Riverton reclamation project, Fremont County, Wyoming, are described as follows: Station 0 to 1, bearing south eighty-nine degrees, fifty-three minutes east, distance fifty-nine one-hundredths mile, beginning at a point in the north boundary of section 22, township 3 north, range 2 west. Wind River meridian, which point is the northwest corner of lot 1, section 22, and is a meander corner, marking a point on the left bank of the Big Wind River, as established in the public lands survey of the above township and range, which survey was approved on April 15, 1891, by the Surveyor General of the United States. Thence, from said point of beginning, the boundary of the Riverton project bears easterly on the section line between sections 15 and 22, to the section corner common to sections 14, 15, 22, and 23, township 3 north, range 2 west. Wind River meridian. Station 1 to 2, bearing east, distance 1 mile, from the beforedescribed corner, course bears east on section line between sections 14 and 23 to the corner common to sections 13,14, 23, and 24, township 3 north, range 2 west. Wind River meridian. Station 2 to 3, bearing north, distance one-fourth mile, thence, from said section corner, course bears north along section line between sections 13 and 14 to the south one-sixteenth corner in said boundary. Station 3 to 4, bearing east, distance one mile, departing from the aforesaid boundary between sections 13 and 14, course bears east on the south one-sixteenth line across section 13 to the south one-sixteenth corner between section 13, township 3 north, range 2 west, and section 18, township 3 north, range 1 west. Wind River meridian. Station 4 to 5, bearing north, distance one-fourth mile, thence, north on the township line to the one-fourth corner between section 13, township 3 north, range 2 west, and section 18, township 3 north, range 1 west, Wind River meridian.

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