An Act to authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Alaska Council of Boy Scouts of America for a camp site and other public purposes
PL 83-714 (H.R.2012), enacted 08/30/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 714-AUG. 30, 1954 
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national defense purposes, the United States may, without pay-
ment therefor, reenter such property and use all or any part of it 
(including improvements by the State of Texas) but upon the 
termination of such use such property shall revert to the State 
of Texas; and 
(4) contain such additional terms, conditions, reservations, 
and restrictions as may be determined by the Secretary of the 
Army to be necessary to protect the interests of the United States. 
Approved August 30, 1954. 
Public Law 714 
CHAPTER 1084 
August 30, 1954 
[H. R. 2012] 
Alaska 
Council 
of Boy Sc o u t s of 
America< 
Land sale. 
AN ACT 
66 Stat. 133. 
46 u s e 289, 883, 
notes. 
To authorize the sale of certain public lands in Alaska to the Alaska Council 
of Boy Scouts of America for a camp site and other public pui'poses. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Alaska 
Council of Boy Scouts of America is hereby authorized for a period 
of one year from and after the effective date of this Act to apply 
for the purchase of, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 
authorized and directed to convey to the organization for a camp 
site and other public purposes, the following-described public lands 
situated in Alaska: 
Homesite numbered 337, located on Hot Springs Bay, west shore 
of Baranof Island, Tongass National Forest, Alaska, approximate 
latitude fifty-six degrees fifty minutes ten seconds north, longitude 
one hundred thirty-five degrees twenty-two minutes ten seconds west. 
Beginning at corner numbered 1, MC at line of mean high tide on 
shore of Hot Springs Bay, not set on account of liability to destruc-
tion by tides; thence south six and no one-hundredths chains to corner 
immbered 2; thence east five and seventy-five one-hundredths chains 
to corner numbered 3; thence north six and fifty one-hundredths chains 
to corner numbered 4, MC at line of mean high tide, not set on account 
of liability to destruction by tides; thence by meanders along shore 
of Hot Springs Bay at line of mean high tide south seventy degrees 
west three and seventy-five one-hundredths chains, north sixty-nine 
degrees west two and thirty-four one-hundredths chains to the place 
of beginning. 
(A witness corner bears south sixty-five one-hundredths 
cliain from corner numbered 4.) 
(Witness corner consisting of a 
cedar post four inches square, four feet long, marked WC 1 MC HS 
bears south seventy one-hundredths chain from corner numbered 1.) 
(Tie: Witness corner, meander corner numbered 2 of United States 
Survey Numbered 1401 bears south seventy-six degrees thirty minutes 
west two and fifty-nine one-hundredths chains from WC MC 1.) 
(A trail right-of-way one-half chain in width crosses the tract, the 
center line of which enters the west boundary of the homesite two 
and seven one-hundredths chains, south from true point for corner 
numbered 1 MC, thence north eighty-four degrees east five and no 
one-hundredths chains, north thirty-four degrees east two and eighty 
one-hundredths chains, to a point south eighty-five one-hundredths 
chain, from true point for corner numbered 4 MC), embracing approxi-
mately three and tw^enty-eight one-hundredths acres. 
SEC. 2. Such conveyance shall be subject to the terms and conditions 
provided for the sale of public lands to a nonprofit corporation or 
nonprofit association under the Act of June 4, 1954 (Public Law 387, 
Eighty-third Congress, second session) : Provided^ That the convey-
ance hereby authorized shall not include any land covered by a valid 
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existing riglit initiated under the public land laws, or a valid posses-
sory right based upon section 8 of the Act of May 17, 1884 (28 Stat, 
24), section 14 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1095), or section 
27 of the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 321; 48 U. S. C., sec. 356) : 
Provided further^ That notwithstanding any of the provisions of this 
Act, the Secretary shall convey the lands to the Alaska Council of 
Boy Scouts of America only if the organization pays the price fixed 
by the Secretary within five years after notification by the Secretary 
of the price. 
Approved August 30, 1954. 
31 Stat. 330. 
Payment. 
Public Law 715 
CHAPTER 1085 
AN ACT 
To authorize the preparation of rolls of persons of Indian blood whose ancestors 
were members of certain tribes or bands in the State of Oregon, and to provide 
for per capita distribution of funds arising from certain judgments in favor of 
such tribes or bands. 
August 30, 1954 
[H. R. 4118] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior, hereafter referred to as the "Secretary", is hereby 
authorized and directed to prepare separate rolls of the Indians of the 
blood of the Molel or Molallalas Tribe of Oregon and of the Confeder-
ated Bands of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians and the Calappoias resid-
ing in the Umpqua Valley, and of the Tillamook, Coquille, Tootoo-
toney, and Chetco Tribes of Oregon, living on the date of this Act. 
Applications for enrollment shall be filed within one year of the date 
of ajjproval of this Act. 
The determination of the Secretary of the 
eligibility of an applicant for enrollment shall be final and conclusive. 
No person shall be entitled to be enrolled on more than one roll. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized and directed to withdraw the 
funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of 
the respective tribes or bands, including those funds appropriated by 
Public Law 253 (Eighty-second Congress) approved November 1, 
1951, in satisfaction of judgments obtained by the tribes or bands in the 
cases of Alcea Band of Tillamook, et al., against United States (119 
C. Cls. 835), and Rogue River Tribes of Indians, et al., against United 
States (116 C. Cls. 454), and to make appropriate and equitable per 
capita payments therefrom to each person whose name appears on said 
approved rolls: Provided, That any amounts paid to or for individual 
members, or distributed to or for the legatees or next of kin of any 
eiirollee, as provided in this Act, shall not be subject to Federal tax. 
SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary shall make payments directly to a living 
enrollee. 
The Secretary shall distribute the share of a person deter-
mined to be eligible for enrollment, but who dies subsequent to the date 
of approval of this Act and on whose behalf an application is filed and 
approved, and the share of a deceased enrollee, directly to his next of 
kin or legatees as determined by the laws of the domicile of the 
decedent, upon proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the 
Secretary, whose findings upon such proof shall be final and conclusive. 
(b) Payments due persons under twenty-one years of age or persons 
under legal disability shall be made in accordance with laws applicable 
to such persons in the State of domicile of the payee. The Secretary 
may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment 
of a guardian to receive and administer payments due a person under 
twenty-one years of age or under legal disability, and may take such 
other action as he deems appropriate for the protection of the interests 
of any such person in connection with payments hereunder. 
Indian tribes of 
Oregon. 
Enrollment of de-
scendants. 
Per capita pay-
ments. 
65 Stat. 75 4.