An Act to determine the rights and interests of the Navajo Tribe and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation in and to certain lands in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes
PL 90-256 (S.491), enacted 02/14/1968

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final, except that the same shall be subject to review by the Supreme 
Court upon certiorari as provided in section 1254 of title 28 of the 
United States Code. 
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62 stat. 928. 
" (1) SAVING CLAUSE,—Nothing contained in this section, other than 
mergers or acquisitions approved under section 408(e)(2), shall be 
interpreted or construed as approving any act, action, or conduct which 
is or has been or may be in violaltion of existing law, nor shall anything 
herein contained constitute a defense to any action, suit, or proceeding 
pending or hereafter instituted on account of any act, action, or con-
duct in violation of the antitrust laws." 
Approved February 14, 1968. 
Public Law 90-256 
AN A C T 
February 14, 1968 
To determine the rights and interests of the Navajo Tribe and the Ute Mountain 
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Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation in and to certain lands in the State 
of New Mexico, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may B^ndUy^ofspute 
be cited as the "Navajo-Ute Boundary Dispute Act". 
Act. 
SEC. 2. The consent of the United States is hereby given to either or 
both the Navajo Tribe of Indians and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the 
Ute Mountain Reservation to bring suit against each other, and against 
any other tribe of Indians, persons, or entities, to (juiet the beneficial 
title in and to such lands in the State of New Mexico as are common 
to the description contained in article I I of the treaty concluded June 
1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of 
Indians and proclaimed August 12, 1868 (15 Stat. 667), setting apart 
certain lands for the use and occupation of the Navajo Tribe of 
Indians, and to the description contained in section 3 of the Act 
approved February 20,1895 (28 Stat. 677), setting apart certain lands 
for the sale and exclusive use and occupancy of the Southern Ute 
Indians described therein. The United States asserts no beneficial 
claim to or interest in such land, acknowledges that it holds the legal 
title to the land in trust, recognizes that the beneficial title cannot be 
litigated without the consent of the United States, and consents to 
litigation between the two Indian tribes only in order that their con-
flicting claims of beneficial title may be conclusively determined. The 
United States shall not be joined as a party defendant in the litigation, 
and nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize a claim against 
the United States. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the 
land in accordance with the judicial determination of be4ieficial title. 
SEC. 3. Any action commenced pursuant to section 2 of this Act shall 
be heard and determined by a district court of three judges in the 
United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, in accord-
ance with the provisions of title 28, United States Code, section 2284, 
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and, subject to the provisions of section 4 of this Act, any party may 
appeal as of right directly to the Supreme Court of tlie United States 
from the final determination by such three-judge district court. 
SEC. 4. It is hereby declared to be the intent and the objective of the con*rels°^ 
Congress that the relative rights and interests of all parties making 
claims against each other in and to the surface and the subsurface of 
the lands identified in section 2 of this Act be judicially determined 
in accordance with such principles as may be just and fair in law and 
equity, including a consistent award or awards or release or releases 
to either or both the Navajo Tribe and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the 
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Ute Mountain Reservation of such bonus sums, rentals, and royalties, 
or other moneys paid or received on account of the leasing of any por-
tion of such lands and now held in a joint account in the Treasury of 
the United States pursuant to the agreement dated May 9, 1957, 
between the two tribes, approved by the Area Director of the Bureau 
of Indian Affairs. In furtherance of the accomplishment of this intent 
and the attainment of this objective, the parties are hereby authorized 
to enter into a settlement agreement, in which provision may be made 
for a recognition in perpetuity of their relative rights to use and to 
enjoy the surface and the subsurface of the lands identified in section 2 
of this Act, including the division of any and all of such bonus sums, 
rentals, and royalties, or other moneys paid or received on account of 
the leasing of any portion of said lands for any purpose or purposes. 
Such settlement agreement may be embodied in and be made a part of 
any decree of the court, which thereupon shall be final and conclusive 
with respect to the rights and interests of all parties. 
SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to be a congressional 
determination of the merits of the conflicting tribal, individual Indian, 
or other claims w4th respect to the lands that are the subject of this 
Act. 
Approve([i February 14, 1968. 
February 15,1968 
[H.R. 14563] 
Railroad Retire-
ment Act of 1937 
and Railroad Un-
employment In-
surance Act, 
amendment. 
50 Stat. 309. 
45 u s e 228a. 
68 Stat. 1038; 
73 Stat. 26. 
45 u s e 228b. 
65 Stat. 683; 
80 Stat. 1075. 
Public Law 90-257 
AN ACT 
To amend the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 and the Railroad Unemployment 
Insuraace Act to provide for increase in benefits, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That— 
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO T H E RAILROAD 
RETIREMENT ACT 
SEC. 101. The eighth sentence of section 1 (h) of the Railroad Retire-
ment Act of 193Tis amended by inserting "before 1968" after "calendar 
month" and by adding after such eighth sentence the following new 
sentence: "In making such a determination there shall be attributable 
as compensation paid to him for each calendar month after 1967 in 
which he is in military service so creditable the amount of $260." 
SEC. 102. The second paragraph of section 2(d) of the Railroad 
Retirement Act of 1937 is amended b^ striking out "$1,200" wherever 
this figure appears and inserting in lieu thereof "$2,400"; by striking 
out "$100" wherever such figure appears and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$200"; and by striking out ^'$50" and inserting in lieu thereof "$100". 
SEC. 103. (a) Section 2(e^ of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 
is amended by striking out reduction" and inserting in lieu thereof