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PUBLIC LAW 277-AUG. 9, 1955

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be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The consideration for each sale, when so agreed upon and approved, shall be paid out of such funds of the Navaho Tribe as may be designated for this purpose by its governing body. The Secretary of the Interior and the appropriate officers of said Pueblos are authorized to execute such instruments of conveyance as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the transfer of title to any lands purchased by the Navaho Tribe under this section. SEC. 2. All proceeds received from each of the sales authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Pueblo making the sale in the account established for such Pueblo pursuant to section 19 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 636, 642), and, together with any other funds heretofore or hereafter deposited in the same account, shall be available for expenditure or advance for such purposes, except per capita payments, as may be designated by the governing body of such Pueblo and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 3. For the purpose of consolidating the lands of the Navaho Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the governing body of said tribe, may exchange any lands purchased under section 1 of this Act for any other lands situated in McKinley or Valencia Counties, New Mexico, that are owned by the United States, by the State of New Mexico, or a political subdivision thereof, or by any person; and, for the same purpose, the head of any department or agency having administrative jurisdiction over lands situated in said counties that are owned by the United States may exchange any such lands for lands purchased under section 1 of this Act. Approved August 9, 1955, Eiiblic Law 277

CHAPTER 637

Augusts, 1955

AN ACT

[S. 1965]

J o repeal a particular contractual requirement with respect to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico.

Be it ermcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the se^vMlJjMDisScT, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in N. Mex. ' the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a Federal reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico", approved August 2, 52 Stat. 211. 1937, as amended (43 U.S.C. sec. 600a), is amended by striking out the semicolon and the word "and" at the end of clause (c) and by striking out all of clause (d) to the period. No provision with respect to the matters covered in said clause (d) which is contained in any contract entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall, except as is otherwise provided by this Act, be enforced by the United States. Nothing contained in this section shall affect (1) the retention and application by the United States of any payments which have been made prior to the date of enactment of this Act in accordance with any such provision of a contract, (2) the obligation of any party to the United States with respect to any payment which is due to the United States under any such provision but not paid upon the date of enactment of this Act, and the application by the United States of any such payment in accordance with the terms of such contract, or (3) the enforcement of any such obligation by refusal to deliver water to lands covered by contractual provisions executed in accordance with said clause (d), except in those cases, if any, in which a sale or transfer consummated between December 27, 1938, and the date of enact-

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