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PUBLIC LAW 86-192-AUG. 25, 1959

(c) To convey to the life tenant, his heirs, devisees, successors, or assigns unrestricted title to the entire interest in lands and improvements thereon, including mineral deposits, that were acquired pursuant to the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended (25 U.S.C. 501-509), or the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended (25 U.S.C. 461 and the following), by the United States in trust for a designated individual Indian for his lifetime and thereafter in trust for the tribe. (d) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, to sell within three years after the date of enactment of this Act or as soon thereafter as possible, upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper, or to transfer to a Federal agency or to a public body for public use, the lands, interests therein, and improvements thereon which have been acquired by the United States for use of the Choctaw Tribe under authority of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), and subsequent Acts, administrative jurisdiction over which has heretofore been transferred by the President from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order Numbered 7868, dated April 15, 1938. The proceeds from such sales, after deduction of costs of sale, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the tribe. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any Indian of any individual right, ownership, or contract right he may have in land that is sold. SEC. 3. Any one or more of the enrolled members of the Choctaw Tribe or their descendants who occupy under a written lease or permit from the Bureau of Indian Affairs a portion of any lands subject to sale under the provisions of this Act shall have the right to purchase at such sale the lands which they occupy for a price equal to the highest acceptable competitive bid therefor, less the appraised value of any improvements which they may have placed thereon and which were not a part of the consideration for the lease or permit. SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to execute such patents, deeds, assignments, releases, certificates, contracts, and other instruments as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act, or to establish a marketable title to any property disposed of pursuant to this Act. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall abrogate any valid lease, permit, license, right-of-way, lien, or other contract heretofore approved. Whenever such instrument places in or reserves to the Secretary any powers, duties, or other functions with respect to the property subject hereto, the Secretary may transfer such functions, in whole or in l^art, to any Federal agency with the consent of such agency. SEC. 6. The Secretary is authorized to set off against any indebtedness payable to the tribe or to the United States by an individual member of the tribe, or payable to the United States by the tribe, any funds payable to such individual or tribe under this Act and to deposit the amounts set off to the credit of the tribe or the United States as the case may be. SEC. 7. The Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), as amended (25 U.S.C. 461), and the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended (25 U.S.C. 501-509), shall not apply to the Choctaw Tribe and its members after the date of enactment of this Act, except that the provisions of section 1 of the Act of June 26, 1936, with respect to taxes on lands that are held by the United States in trust shall continue in effect until the trust is terminated, and any trust for the benefit of an individual Indian that was created pursuant to such section shall be terminated only as otherwise authorized by this Act or by any other Federal statute.

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