[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC574]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 574. Consolidation of lands
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to
establish land-use districts within the diminished and ceded portions of
the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, and, under such rules and
regulations as he may prescribe, to effect the consolidation of Indian
and privately owned lands within said districts through exchange,
relinquishment, donation, assignment, or purchase of lands or interests
therein, including water rights or surface rights to lands, improvements
thereon and improvements on undisposed-of ceded lands, to the end that
the respective Indian and non-Indian land holdings may be consolidated
for more beneficial use. Exchanges of lands hereunder shall be made on
the basis of equal value, and the value of improvements on lands to be
relinquished to the Indians or by Indians, to non-Indians shall be given
due consideration, and allowance made therefor in the valuation of lieu
lands. This section shall apply to tribal land, and trust or otherwise
restricted Indian allotments, whether the allottees be living or
deceased. In all transactions involving tribal Indian land, the consent
of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes shall first be obtained. Title to all
lands or interests therein acquired by the Government through exchange
of tribal land shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust
for the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of Indians of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming. Title to lands exchanged for individual Indian
allotments, or purchased for individual Indians with restricted funds
shall be taken by the United States in trust for the individual Indian
allottee or heir. The right herein granted individual Indians to acquire
lands by purchase with restricted funds or by exchange shall not extend
to lands on the ceded or opened portion of the reservation.
(July 27, 1939, ch. 387, Sec. 4, 53 Stat. 1129.)
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