An Act to provide that payments be made to certain members of the Pine Ridge Sioux Tribe of Indians as reimbursement for damages suffered as the result of the establishment of the Pine Ridge aerial gunnery range
PL 84-769 (H.R.5838), enacted 07/24/1956

To S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 770-JULY 24, 1956 
626 
Public Law 769 
CHAPTER 681 
AN ACT 
To provide that payments be made to certain meml)ers of the Pine Rid^e Sioux 
Tribe of Indians as reimbursement for damages suffered as the result of the 
establishment of the Pine Ridge aerial gunnery range. 
July 24,1956 
[H. R. 5838] 
Payment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
pli^Ridge sioux 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to pay the sum of $3,500 Tribe. 
to the head of each of the one hundred and twenty-five Indian families 
determined by the report entitled "Investigation of the Pine Ridge 
Aerial Gunnery Range Taking for the Committee on Interior and 
Insular Affairs, United States House of Representatives", submitted 
by the Department of the Interior on April 10, 1952, in response to a 
resolution of the Committee on Public Lands of the House of Repre-
sentatives, adopted March 4, 1950, to have actually been domicilea on 
August 1, 1942, on the land belonging to the Pine Ridge Sioux Tribe 
of Indians, South Dakota, which was taken by the Department of 
the Army in 1942 for the Pine Ridge aerial gunnery range. 
The Secre-
tary of the Interior shall make such payment of $3,500 to the heirs or 
devisees of any such head of a family who is deceased. 
Payment of 
such sum shall be in full and complete settlement of all claims of such 
Indians and their heirs or devisees against the United States for 
damages suffered as a result of being forced to move from their homes, 
and l^ing forced to relocate and reestablish themselves elsewhere 
because such lands were taken for an aerial gunnery range and the 
distribution of funds under this Act shall not be subject to any lien, 
except for debts owed to the United States or to Indian organizations 
indebted to the United States, and shall not be taxable. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
the purposes of the first section of this Act the sum of $437,500. 
Approved July 24, 1956. 
Public Law 770 
CHAPTER 682 
July 24,1956 
[H. R. 9246] 
AN ACT 
To amend the Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946 by authorizing payments to 
survivors of former members for unused leave credit. 
Be it eruwted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last sen- 
^^%% ^pLy^ent 
tence of section 4 (c) of the Armed Forces Leave Act of 1946, as added »
«
> •urvivors. 
by section 1 of the Act of August 4, 1947 (37 U. S. C. 33 (c)), is 
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amended to read as follows: "Settlement and compensation in accord-
ance with this subsection shall, in the case of a member or former 
member of the Armed Forces who dies after retirement or discharge 
and without having received that compensation, be made to the sur-
vivors of that member or former memter in the manner prescribed in 
section (
5 (b) of this Act." 
SEC. 2. This Act takes effect August 9, 1946. No settlement and 
compensation may be made under this Act in the case of a member or 
former member who died before the date of enactment of this Act 
unless application is made to the Secretary concerned within two years 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. Any settlement and compensation made under this Act shall 
be made from current applicable appropriations. 
Approved July 24, 1956. 
62. Stat. 506. 
37 u s e 35. 
Effective Date. 
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