Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 69.djvu/435

 69 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 189-JULY 28, 1955

393

(3) exchange any tribal trust lands within such reservation, including lands, interests, improvements, and rights acquired for the tribes under this Act, for lands situated within such reservation which are held by individual members of the tribes and other Indians under trust patent or other restrictions against alienation including lands in heirship status, (b) The Secretary shall obtain the advice and consent of the Yakima Tribal Council before entering into any such transaction. The terms and conditions of any such transaction, including the price at which any land is so purchased or sold and the valuation of any lands so exchanged, shall be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary, the Yakima Tribal Council, and the individual Indian or Indians concerned. Any such exchange of tribal lands for lands held by individual members of the Yakima Tribes or other Indians, and for lands in heirship status, shall be effected on the basis of approximately equal consideration with due allowance for the value of improvements in determining the value of such lands. SEC. 2. (a) Title to lands, interests, improvements, or rights so acquired by the Secretary for the Yakima Tribes through purchase or exchange shall be held by the United States in trust for the Yakima Tribes. Title to tribal trust lands, interests, improvements, or rights sold by the Secretary to individual members of the Yakima Tribes or exchanged by the Secretary for lands held under trust patent or other restrictions against alienation by individual members of the tribes and other Indians or for lands in heirship status shall be held by the United States in trust for the individual Indian or Indians concerned. (b) Sums derived from the sale of tribal trust lands, interests, improvements, and rights shall be credited to the tribal funds of the Yakima Tribes. SEC. 3. (a) No transaction entered into under this Act shall affect, without the consent of the lessee, any lease of lands, interests, improvements, or rights involved in such transaction, or any right of the lessee with respect to extension or renewal of such lease, which is in existence at the time such transaction is entered into. (b) Nothing in this Act shall affect the existing status of any lands, interests, improvements, or rights with respect to taxation. SEC. 4. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Approved July 28, 1955. Public Law 189

CHAPTER 424 ^^

^^^

To amend section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended, to provide an increased maximum per diem allowance for subsistence and travel expenses, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assewhled^ That section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 166, as amended; 5 U.S.C. 836) is further amended by striking "$9" and inserting in lieu thereof "$12"'; and by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following additional proviso: ": And provided further, That where due to the unusual circumstances of a travel assignment within the limits of the continental United States such maximum per diem

July 28. 1955

[H. R. 6295]

Travel expenses, ""*°'*-

�