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Notice of claim, etc.

60 Stat. 925. 50 USC app. 34. "Organization".

60 Stat. 925. 50 U S C a p p. 3 3.

PUBLIC LAW 627-AUG. 23, 1954

Alabama and Coushatta Tribes, Tex. Termination of Federal supervision.

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such time, if no claim for the return of the property or interest is pending. Total returns pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed $3,000,000. "No return may be made to an organization so designated unless it files notice of claim before the expiration of one year from the effective date of this Act and unless it gives firm and responsible assurance approved by the President that (i) the property or interest returned to it or the proceeds of any such property or interest will be used on the basis of need in the rehabilitation and settlement of persons in the United States who suffered substantial deprivation of liberty or failed to enjoy the full rights of citizenship within the meaning of subdivisions (C) and (D) of subsection (a)(2) hereof; (ii) it will transfer, at any time within two years from the time that return is made, such property or interest or the equivalent value thereof to any person whom the President or such officer or agency shall determine to be eligible under section 32 to claim as owner or successor in interest to such owner, by inheritance, devise, or bequest; (iii) it will make to the President, with a copy to be furnished to the Congress, such reports (including a detailed annual report on the use of the property or interest returned to it or the proceeds of any such property or interest) and permit such examination of its books as the President or such officer or agency may from time to time require; and (iv) will not use such property or interest or the proceeds of such property or interest for legal fees, salaries or any other administrative expenses connected with the filing of claims for or the recovery of such property or interest. "The filing of notice of claim by an organization so designated shall not bar the payment of debt claims under section 34 of this Act. "As used in this subsection, 'organization' means only a nonprofit charitable corporation incorporated on or before January 1, 1950, under the laws of any State of the United States or of the District of Columbia with the power to sue and be sued." SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 33 of the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411), as amended, is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of such sentence, and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: "except that return may be made to successor organizations designated pursuant to section 32(h) hereof if notice of claim is filed before the expiration of one year from the effective date of this Act." Approved August 23, 1954. Public Law 627

August 23, 1954 [S. 2744]

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CHAPTER 831

AN ACT To provide for the termination of Federal supervision over the property of the Alabama and Coushitta Tribes of Indians-of Texas, and the individual members thereof; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey to the State of Texas the lands held in trust by the United States for the tribe of Indians organized and known as the Alabama and Coushatta Tribes of Texas, located in Polk County, Texas; and such tribe is authorized to convey to the State of Texas the lands purchased for and deeded to the Alabama Indians in accordance with an act of the legislature of the State of Texas approved February 3, 1854, located in Polk County, Texas. All of the lands so conveyed shall be held by the State of Texas in

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