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Rules and regulations.

Agreements.

Separability.

PUBLIC LAW 672-AUG. 27, 1954

Lighthouse Serv ice. Retired pay. 40 Stat. 608.

CHAPTER 1010

AN ACT r£Q increase the retired pay of certain members of the former Lighthouse Service*

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the annual rate of retired pay received by any person who was retired on or before June 30, 1953, under section 6 of the Act of June 20, 1918, as amended and supplemented (33 U.S.C. secs. 763-765), shall be increased, effective on the first day of the calendar month following enactment of this Act, by 15 per centum or $264, whichever is the lesser; Provided, That no retired pay shall be increased to an amount in excess of $2,160 by reason of this Act: And provid^^ further, That the increases provided herein shall terminate, without subsequent resumption, on June 30. 1955. Approved August 27, 1954. CHAPTER 1011

Public Law 673 August 27, 1954 [H. R. 3419]

Chippewa I n d i ans. Per c ^ i t a payment to Red Lake Band.

ST A T.

of this Act, or to establish a marketable and recordable title to any property disposed of pursuant to this Act. SEC. 27. The Secretary is authorized to issue rules and regulations necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, and may, in his discretion, provide for tribal or group referenda on matters pertaining to management or disposition of tribal or group assets. SEC. 28. Whenever any action pursuant to the provisions of this Act requires the agreement of the mixed-blood and full-blood groups and such agreement cannot be reached, the Secretary is authorized to proceed in any manner deemed by him to be in the best interests of both groups. SEC. 29. All Acts, or parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed insofar as they affect the tribe or its members. SEC. 30. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Approved August 27, 1954. Public Law 672

uguBt 27, 1954 [H. R. 1843]

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AN ACT To authorize a $50 per capita payment to members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber on the Red Lake Reservation,

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 withdraw as much as may be necessary from the fund on deposit in the Treasury of the United States arising from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber within the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, according to the provisions of the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 137), to the credit of the Red Lake Indians in Minnesota, and to pay therefrom $50 to each member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota who is living at the date of enactment of this Act. Such payment shall be made in two installments of $25 each, the first to be made within thirty days of ratification by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota as provided for in section 2 of this Act, the second installment ninety days thereafter, and under such other rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

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