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PUBLIC LAW 188-JULY 28, 1955

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SEC. 2. The lease entered into under authority of the first section of this Act— (1) shall be null and void and the Yakima Tribe shall have the right of immediate possesssion if the State of Washington ever ceases to maintain Fort Simcoe (Mool-Mool) for historical and for park purposes; (2) shall be entered into for a period of ninety-nine years; (3) shall not contain any provision permitting the exploitation of any natural resource; (4) shall specifically reserve to the Yakima Tribe all mineral and other subsurface rights in such lands which such tribe possesses on the date of enactment of this Act; and (5) shall be entered into under such rules and regulations, and contain such other provisions, as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. SEC. 3. The existing agreement between the Yakima Tribe and the State of Washington may be amended to comply with this Act. SEC. 4. (a) The land on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, which may be leased pursuant to this Act, is more particularly described as follows: The east half of the northeast quarter of section 20, and the west half of the northwest quarter of section 21, and the west half of the east half of the northwest quarter of section 21, all in township 10 north, range 16 east, Willamette meridian, containing two hundred acres more or less. (b) Such additional tribal lands of the Yakima Tribe as adjoin the land described in subsection (a) may, pursuant to all of the terms and conditions of this Act, be leased by such tribe, acting through its tribal council, to the State of Washington. Approved July 28, 1955. Public Law 188 July 28, 1955 [H. R. 1801]

Y a k i m a Indian Reservation, Consolidation of lands.

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AN ACT To authorize the purchase, sale, and exchange of certain Indian lands on the Yakima Indian Reservation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress ossembled^ That (a) for the purpose of effecting consolidations of land, situated within the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, between the Yakima Tribes of Indians and individual members of the tribes and other Indians, for the mutual benefit of the tribes and the individual members thereof, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to— (1) purchase for the Yakima Tribes, with tribal funds of such tribes on deposit in the United States Treasury, or otherwise, any lands held by individual members of the Yakima Tribes and other Indians under trust patent or other restrictions against alienation including lands in heirship status, within the Yakima Indian Reservation, including interests therein or improvements thereon, water rights, and surface rights; (2) sell to individual members of the Yakima Tribes any tribal trust lands within such reservation, including lands, interests, improvements, and rights acquired for the tribes under this Act; and

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