An Act to permit the coordination of the Wisconsin retirement fund with the Federal old-age and survivors insurance system
PL 83-279 (H.R.2062), enacted 08/15/1953

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of New Mexico relating to the sales of intoxicants to Indians, if the 
people of Arizona and New Mexico shall adopt constitutional amend-
ments to accomplish such repeal. 
SEC. 4. Section 9 of the Act of June 4, 1920, An Act to provide for 
allotment of lands of the Crow Tribe, for the distribution of tribal 
funds, and for other purposes (41 Stat. T51), is hereby repealed. 
Approved August 15, 1953. 
Repeal. 
Public Law 278 
CHAPTER 503 
AN ACT 
To facilitate the development and construction of water conservation facilities 
by States and municipalities, and for other purposes. 
August 15, 1953 
[S.2094] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in order to 
facilitate the development and construction by States and municipali-
ties of water conservation facilities, certain requirements in the Fed-
eral Power Act are made inapplicable to States and municipalities 
as provided in this Act. 
SEC. 2. The words used in this Act shall have the same meanings 
ascribed to them in the Federal Power Act. 
SEC. 3. Section 14 of the Federal Power Act pertaining to the taking 
over b^ the United States of any project upon or after the expiration 
of a license, and sections 301 and 3(fe of said Act requiring certain 
records and accounting procedures and section 4 (b) requiring the 
preparation and filing of the statement of actual legitimate original 
cost of a project, shall not be applicable to any project owned by a 
State or municipality, and such rights and requirements shall not 
exist under any license heretofore or hereafter granted to any State 
or municipality, except that the provisions of section 14 and section 4 
(b) shall continue to be applicable to any license issued for a hydro-
electric development in the International Eapids section of the Saint 
Lawrence River. The Federal Power Commission in determining the 
amount of annual charges applicable to any such project may deter-
mine the annual charges with reference to the actual cost of services 
incurred by the Commission with respect to the project. 
SEC. 4. Except as herein provided, the provisions of this Act shall 
not be construed as repealing or affecting any of the provisions of the 
Federal Power Act. 
Approved August 15, 1953. 
Water conserva-
tion facilities. 
41 Stat. 1063; 49 
Stat. 863. 
16 u s e 791a. 
16 u s e 807,825, 
825a, 797. 
Annual charges. 
Public Law 279 
CHAPTER 504 
AN ACT 
To permit the coordination of the Wisconsin retirement fund with the Federal 
old-age and survivors insurance system. 
August 15, 1953 
[H. R. 2062] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of'America in Congress a.'^sembled, That section 218 of 
the Social Security Act (relating to voluntary agreements for cover-
age of State and local employees) is hereby amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new subsection: 
Wis c ons in retire-
ment fund. 
64 Stat. 514. 
42 u s e 418. 
WISCONSIN RETIREMENT FUND 
"(m) (1) Notwithstanding subsection (d), the agreement with the 
State of Wisconsin may, subject to the provisions of this subsection, 
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be modified so as to apply to service performed by employees in posi-
tions covered by the Wisconsin retirement fund. 
" (2) All employees in positions covered by the Wisconsin retirement 
fund at any time on or after January 1,1951, shall, for the purposes of 
subsection (c) only, be deemed to be a separate coverage group; except 
that there shall be excluded from such separate coverage group all 
employees in positions to which the agreement applies v^ithout regard 
to this subsection. 
"(3) The modification pursuant to this subsection shall exclude 
(in the case of employees in the coverage group established by para-
graph (2) of this subsection) service performed by any individual 
during any period before he is included under the Wisconsin retire-
ment fund. 
"(4) The modification pursuant to this subsection shall, if the 
State of Wisconsin requests it, exclude (in the case of employees in the 
coverage group established by paragraph (2) of this subsection) all 
service performed in policemen's positions, all service performed in 
firemen's positions, or both." 
SEC. 2. For the purposes of section 218 (f) of the Social Security 
Act (relating to effective dates of agreements), the amendment made 
by the first section of this Act shall take effect as of January 1, 1951. 
Approved August 15, 1953. 
August 15, 1953 
[H. R. 1063] 
Public Law 280 
CHAPTER 505 
AN ACT 
To confer jurisdiction on the States of California, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, 
and Wisconsin, with respect to criminal offenses and civil causes of action 
committed or arising on Indian reservations within such States, and for 
other purposes. 
Indians. 
. S t a t e 
jurisdic-
tion over criminal 
offenses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 53 of 
title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by inserting at the 
end of the chapter analysis preceding section 1151 of such title the 
following new item: 
"1162. State jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the 
Indian country-" 
SEC. 2. Title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by insert-
ing in chapter 53 thereof immediately after section 1161 a new section, 
to be designated as section 1162, as follows: 
"§ 1162. State jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against 
Indians in the Indian country 
"(a) Each of the States listed in the following table shall have 
jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the 
areas of Indian country listed opposite the name of the State to the 
same extent that such State has jurisdiction over offenses committed 
elsewhere within the State, and the criminal laws of such State shall 
have the same force and effect within such Indian country as they 
have elsewhere within the State: 
"State of 
Indian country affected 
California 
All Indian country within the State 
Minnesota 
All Indian country within the State, except the Red 
Lake Reservation 
Nebraska 
. 
All Indian country within the State 
Oregon 
All Indian country within the State, except the Warm 
Springs Reservation 
Wisconsin 
All Indian country within the State, except the 
Menominee Reservation