An Act to approve the repayment contract negotiated with the Roza Irrigation District, Yakima protect, Washington, and to authorize its execution, and for other purposes
PL 83-462 (H.R.6487), enacted 06/30/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 4 62-JUNE 30, 1954 
in the said reservation, the oil or gas in the land in such lieu allotment 
or such exchange assignment is hereby granted to the holder of the lieu 
allotment or the exchange assignment, as the case may be, unless the 
allottee or his heirs or devisees reserved the oil and gas in the lands 
transferred or relinquished. 
SEC. 3. Title to the oil and gas granted by this Act shall be held 
in trust by the United States for the Indian owners, except where the 
entire interest in the oil and gas is granted to Indians to whom a fee 
patent for any land within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation has 
heretofore been issued, in which event the unrestricted fee simple 
title is hereby granted to the Indian owner, and except where the 
entire interest in the oil and gas is hereafter held for Indians to whom 
a fee patent for any land within said reservation has heretofore or 
hereafter been issued or who are determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior to be competent to manage their own affairs, in which event 
the unrestricted fee simple title shall be transferred to the Indian 
owner by the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. If the Secretary of the Interior determines that the entire 
interest in land, including land held under an exchange assignment, 
on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is owned by Indians who are the 
grantees of oil and gas under this Act and who are competent to 
manage their own affairs, he is authorized and directed to issue fee 
patents to them for such interest. 
SEC. 5. No oil and gas lease which was entered into pursuant to the 
first section of the Act of March 3, 1927, which covers in whole or in 
part the lands referred to in sections 1 and 2 of this Act, and which is 
in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be affected by 
reason of the enactment of this Act, except that any royalties ancl 
other moneys payable under such lease after such date of enactment, 
which are attributable to the oil and gas granted to an Indian by sec-
tions 1 or 2 of this Act shall be payable to such Indian, or if such 
Indian is deceased, to his heirs or devisees. 
SEC. 6. This Act shall not apply to oil and gas in tribal land which, 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, is otherwise undisposed of. 
SEC. 7. Any and all moneys collected by the tribes as advance rentals, 
bonus, and royalties of oil and gas leases after March 3,1927, and prior 
to the transfer of said oil and gas rights pursuant to this Act to said 
individual Indians may also be paid by authority of said executive 
board to the individual Indians to whom said oil and gas rights are 
transferred pursuant to this Act. 
SEC. 8. The provisions of this Act shall not be effective unless 
approved in a referendum by a majority of the members of the Fort 
Peck Tribe actually voting therein: Promded^ That the total vote 
cast shall not be less than 30 per centum of those entitled to vote. 
This referendum shall be conducted on not less than sixty days' 
notice under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior or his duly 
authorized representative. 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
T i t l e s and fee 
patents. 
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leases. 
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Advance rentals, 
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Effectivity. 
Public Law 462 
CHAPTER 436 
AN ACT 
June 30, 1954 
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O approve the repayment contract negotiated with the Roza Irrigation District, 
[H. R. 6487] 
Yakima project, Washington, and to authorize its execution, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the repayment 
R o z a Irrigation 
District. 
Repayment c o n -
tract. 
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43 u s e 485f. 
43 u s e 485a. 
contract negotiated as provided in subsection (a) of section 7 of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) by the Secretary of 
the Interior with the Roza Irrigation District, and substantially in 
the form approved by the electors of that district at a water users 
election held on May 29,1953, is approved and the Secretary is author-
ized to execute it on behalf of the United States. 
SEC. 2. This Act is declared to be part of the Federal reclamation 
laws as those laws are defined in the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 
(53 Stat. 1187). 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
June 30, 1954 
[H. R. 8790] 
Public Law 463 
CHAPTER 437 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain veterans' benefits for persons disablefl in connection with 
reporting for final acceptance, induction, or entry into the active military or 
naval service. 
D is a b i l i t i e s 
prior to induction. 
58 Stat. 219. 
38 u s e ch. 12A. 
Restriction. 
Be it enacted ty the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenyJbled^ That paragraph IV, 
part II, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, as added 
hy Public Law 300, Seventy-eighth Congress, May 11, 1944, is hereby 
redesignated paragraph "V", and is amended by deleting the words 
"termination of the present hostilities^ following the words "prior to", 
and inserting in lieu thereof the follQwing: "January 1,1947, or on or 
after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall be determined by 
Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress". 
SEC. 2. Compensation shall not be paid for any period prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act to any person whose eligibility for com-
pensation is established solely by virtue of this Act. 
Approved June 30, 1964. 
Public Law 464 
CHAPTER 445 
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AN ACT 
July 1, 1954 
[H. R. 9474] 
To extend the authority of the President to enter into trade agreements under 
section 350. of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. 
T r a d e a g r e e -
ments extension. 
67 Stat. 472. 
61 Stat. pts. 
and 6. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the period dur-
ing which the President is authorized to enter into foreign-trade 
agreements under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
and extended (19 U. S. C, sec. 1351), is hereby extended for a further 
period of one year from June 12, 1954. 
SEC. 2. No action shall be taken pursuant to such section 350 to 
decrease the duty on any article if the President finds that such reduc-
tion would threaten domestic production needed for projected national 
defense requirements. 
SEC. 3. The enactment of this Act shall not be construed to deter-
mine or indicate the approval or disapproval by the Congress of the 
Executive agreement known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and 
Trade. 
Approved July 1, 1954.