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PUBLIC LAW 588-AUG. 13, 1954

as may be designated by the governing body of the tribe and approved by the Secretary. SEC. 12. The Secretary shall have authority to execute such patents, deeds, assignments, releases, certificates, contracts, and other instruments as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act, or to establish a marketable and recordable title to any property disposed of pursuant to this Act. SEC. 13. (a) Upon removal of Federal restrictions on the property of each tribe and individual members thereof, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a proclamation declaring that the Federal trust relationship to the affairs of the tribe and its members has terminated. Thereafter individual members of the tribe shall not be entitled to any of the services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians, all statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians, excluding statutes that specifically refer to the tribe and its members, shall no longer be applicable to the members of the tribe, and the laws of the several States shall apply to the tribe and its members in the same manner as they apply to other citizens or persons within their jurisdiction. (b) Nothing in this Act shall affect the status of the members of a tribe as citizens of the United States. (c) Prior to the issuance of a proclamation in accordance with the provisions of this section, the Secretary is authorized to undertake, within the limits of available appropriations, a special program of education and training designed to help the members of the tribe to earn a livelihood, to conduct their own affairs, and to assume their responsibilities as citizens without special services because of their status as Indians. Such program may include language training, orientation in non-Indian community customs and living standards, vocational training and related subjects, transportation to the place of training or instruction, and subsistence during the course of training or instruction. For the purposes of such program the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any Federal, State, or local governmental agency, corporation, association, or person. Nothing in this section shall preclude any Federal agency from undertaking any other program for the education and training of Indians with funds appropriated to it. SEC. 14. (a) Effective on the date of the proclamation provided for in section 13 of this Act, the corporate charter of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community, Oregon, issued pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended, and ratified by the Community on August 22, 1936, is hereby revoked. (b) Effective on the date of the proclamation provided for in section 13 of this Act, all powers of the Secretary or other officer of the United States to take, review, or approve any action under the constitution and bylaws of the tribe are hereby terminated. Any powers conferred upon the tribe by such constitution which are inconsistent with the provisions of the Act are hereby terminated. Such termination shall not affect the power of the tribe to take any action under its constitution and bylaws that is consistent with this Act without the participation of the Secretary or other officer of the United States. SEC. 15. The Secretary is authorized to set off against any indebtedness payable to the tribe or to the United States by an individual member of the tribe, or payable to the United States by the tribe, any funds payable to such individual or tribe under this Act and to deposit the amount set off to the credit of the tribe or the United States as the case may be. SEC. 16. Nothing in this Act shall affect any claim heretofore filed against the United States by any tribe.

Patents, etc.

deeds,

Federal trust termination proclamation. P u b l i c ation in FR.

Citizenship status. Training, e t c.

Revo c a t i o n of charter.

25 USC 461-479. Termination of powers.

Ind i V i d u a 1 ir>debtedness. Use of payment.

Claims aga i n st U. S.

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