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Appropriation.

PUBLIC LAW 91-478-OCT. 21, 1970

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(1) to make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and amend rules and regulations governing the manner of the operations of the Commission; (2) to appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and employees as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and to prescribe their authority and duties; and (3) to obtain the services of experts and consultants in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code. (e)(1) Members of the Commission from private life, while engaged in the performance of their duties as members of the Commission, shall receive compensation at a rate to be fixed by the President, not to exceed $100 each day, including traveltime, and shall, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, be entitled to travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (2) Members of the Commission who are officers or employees of the United States shall serve without additional compensation, but shall be entitled to travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. (f) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $750,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. Approved October 21, 1970.

Public Law 91-478 October 21, 1970 [H. R. 15624]

AN ACT To convey certain federally owned land to the Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That ujpon payment Land conveyance, by the Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma, as provided in section 2 of this Act, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in that part of the northwest quarter northeast quarter and southwest quarter northeast quarter lying south of United States Highway Numbered 62, section 20, township 16 north, range 22 east, Indian meridian, Oklahoma, comprising 38.5 acres more or less, heretofore acquired for school purposes, shall vest in the Cherokee Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, and such land shall not be subject to any exemption from taxation, or restrictions on use, management, or disposition because of Indian ownership. Payment to U.S. SEC. 2. I n full consideration for the transfer of title, the Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma shall pay the United States $2,258,80, payment to be made to the Secretary of the Interior within ninety days after this Act is approved and deposited in the general fund of the United States Treasury. Claims offset SEC. 3. The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in a g a i n s t U.S. accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 25 USC 70a. 1050), the extent to which the value of the title conveyed by this Act as of August 20, 1964, less the payment of $2,258.80 as provided in section 2, should or should not be set off against any claim the United States determined by the Commission. Approved October 21, 1970. Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma

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