Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-14

The following Senate Bill 3394, in troduced by Senator Ralph H. Cam ,eron will be of interest to our readers:
 A BILL
 To provide for the development of the lands within the Colorado River
 Indian Reservation for the benefit
 of the Indians and of veterans
 of the World War.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unit ed States of America in Congress as- sembled, That when used in this Act
 (a) The term Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior.
 (b) The term reservation" means the Colorado River Indian Reservation in the States of Arizona and Califor- mia.
 (c) The term. veteran" means any individual a member of the military or naval forces of the United States at any time after April 5, 1917, and before November 12, 1918, but does not include CD any individual at any time during such period or thereafter separated from such forces under than honorable conditions, (2) any con- scientious objector who performed no military duty whatever or refused to wear the uniform, or (3) any alien at any time during such period or thereafter discharged from the mili- tary or naval forces on account of h,s alienage.
 Sec. 2. That the Secretary is auth orized to cause all unsurveyed lands within the reservation to be surveyed and to make allotments in severalty under existing laws to all Indians en- titled to allotment on the reservation: Provided, That there shall be reserved from allotment or other disposition such lands as the Secretary may deem necessary for administrative purposes!
 Sec. 8. That the Secretary is auth orized to cause all lands within the reservation which have not been al- lotted in severalty to Indians, or re- stricted for administrative purposes to be classified as (a) mineral land, (b) nonirrigable grazing land, or Co irrigable land, and shall cause the lands so classified to be appraised on a per-acre basis according to the value of each respective tract, which in no case shall be less than $10 per acre for the land classified as mineral land, $1.25 per acre for the land classified as nonirrigable grazing land, and $1O per acre for the land classified as ir- rigable land. The irrigable land shall be divided into farm units each ,suf- ficient in size, in the opinion of the Secretary, to support family. Sec. 4. That the lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six of each town ship within that part of the reserva- ton situate in the State of Arizona, not allotted in severalty to Indians, not classified as mineral, or not re- served for town-site purposes, are hereby granted to the State of Ari- zona in support of it's common schools: Provided, That where the land in any such section or any part thereof is so allotted in severalty to Indians, classified as mineral or re served for town-site purposes, the proper officials of the State, with the approval of the Secretary, are hereb! authorized to select in lieu thereof other lands of equal area and of the same class, not exceeding, however two additional sections of any ont township, and such selections art hereby granted to the State of Arl zona in support of it's common schools in lieu of the lands in sections SIX teen and thirty-six so allotted, classl fled, or reserved. =
 Sec. 5. That the Secretary is auth orized to reserve and set apart fo town-site purposes such tracts of lan within the reservation as in hi opinion may be required for the fu ture public interests, and he ma cause the same to be surveyed int
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