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PUBLIC LAW 88-534-AUG. 31, 1964

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SEC, 15. Upon a determination by the Secretary of the Army that all or pait of the interests in land acquired as set forth in section 1 of this Act no longer are necessary for purposes of the Allegheny Reservoir project, all right, title, and interests in such lands shall thereupon vest in the Seneca Nation. SEC. 16. No part of any expenditures made by the United States under any of the provisions of this Act shall be charged by the United States as an offset or counterclaim against any claim oi the Seneca Nation against the United States other than claims arising out of the acquisition of interests in land for the Allegheny Reservoir project. SEC. 1 7. All funds authorized by this Act paid to the Seneca Nation "^^^ exemption. and individual Seneca Indians shall be exempt from all forms of State and Federal income taxes. SEC. 18. Except as specifically required to carry out the provisions virrotTwith^-''^'^* of this Act, the Department of the Interior shall not enlarge the serv- drawai'. ices which it is now in fact rendering to, or the supervision which it is now in fact exercising over the property and affairs of, the Seneca Nation and its members pursuant to the laws of the United States relating to Indians and Indian tribes. The Secretary of the Interior c<!^*^esV° shall, after consultation with the Seneca Nation, submit to the Congress a plan for complete withdrawal of Federal supervision over the property and affairs of the Nation and its members. Said plan shall be submitted within three years from the effective date of this Act. Approved August 31, 1964.

Public Law 88-534 AN ACT To amend section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, and for other purposes.

August 31, 1964 [H. R. 9 1 7 8 ]

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmise of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventh cr*T^*"o*' and eighth sentences of section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and mittee^sys't^m's. Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)), are de- 52 Stat. 3i. leted and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "Farmers within any such local administrative area, and participating or cooperating in programs administered within such area, shall elect annually from among their number a local committee of not more than three members for such area. The members of the local committees shall, in a county convention, nominate and elect a county committee which shall consist of three members who are farmers in the county. At the first county convention held on or after the effective date of this sentence, one member of the county committee shall be elected for one year; one member shall be elected for two years; and one member shall be elected for three years. Thereafter, each member of a county committee shall be elected for a term of three years. No member of the county committee shall be elected for more than three consecutive terms (exclusive of any term which began prior to the effective date of this sentence)." SEC. 2. Section 503 of the Act of August 26, 1954 (68 Stat. 908; ^^P^^^1 6 ^. S. C. 590h-3), is repealed. SEC. 3. Section 1 of this Act shall become effective for elections of Effective date. committeemen held on or after January 1, 1965. Approved August 31, 1964. 31-667 0-65—50

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