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PUBLIC LAW 85-628-AUG. 14, 1958

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Public Law 85-628 AN ACT To provide compensation to the Crow I'Yibe of Indians for certain ceded lands embraced within and otherwise required in connection with the Huntley reclamation project, Montana, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Howie of Repre-^entativen of the United States of America in CongresH asaemhled^ That (a) there is hereby authorized to be transferred in the Treasury of the United States from funds now or hereafter made available to the Bureau of Reclamation and to be placed to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians, Montana, and expended for its benefit and the benefit of its members, pursuant to existing: law, a sum of money determined as provided in this section for terminating and extinguishing all of the right, title, estate, and interest, except minerals including oil and gas, of said Indian tribe in and to the lands of that part of the former Crow Indian Reservation lying within the boundaries described below. The Secretary of the Interior shall appraise the fair market value of the interest in the lands taken by this Act within ninety days after passage of this Act and offer that sum to the Crow Tribe. The Crow Tribe may also appraise the fair market value of the interest in the lands taken by this Act and determine whether the appraisal of the Secretary of the Interior is acceptable to the Crow Tribe. If the offer of the Secretary of the Interior is not accepted within sixty days, the Secretary or the Crow Tribe is authorized to commence in a court of competent jurisdiction an action for determining the just compensation payable for such taking. The fair market value of, and the just compensation payable for, the Indian interest in the lands taken by this Act shall not include any value attributable to the construction and development by the United States of the Huntley reclamation project. The perimeter boundaries of the tract of land, dealt with hereinabove, they being also the proposed exterior boundaries of the Huntley reclamation project, Montana, are described as follows: Beginning at a point where the midchannel of the Yellowstone River intersects the west sixteenth line of section 1, township 3 north, range 31 east, principal meridian, Montana; Thence south along said west sixteenth line to the southwest sixteenth corner; which is the southeast corner of lot 2 of said section 1; Thence west along the south sixteenth line to the south sixteenth corner between sections 1 and 2; Thence south along the section line to the south sixteenth comer between sections 11 and 12; Thence west along the south sixteenth line to the southwest sixteenth corner of section 11; Thence north along the west sixteenth line to the west sixteenth corner of section 1 1; Thence west along the quarter line to the east sixteenth corner of section 10; Thence south along the east sixteenth line to the southeast sixteenth corner of section 10; Thence west along the south sixteenth line to the southwest sixteenth corner of section 10; Thence south along the west sixteenth line to the west sixteenth corner between sections 10 and 15; Thence west along the section line to the corner common to sections 9, 10,15, and 16; Thence south along the section line to the quarter corner between sections 15 and 16; 98395-59-PT. 1-37

August 14, 1958 [H.R. 11722]

Indians. Payment to Crow Tribe.

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