An Act to amend section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, and for other purposes
PL 88-534 (H.R.9178), enacted 08/31/1964

78 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-534-AUG. 31, 1964 
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SEC, 15. L'pon a determination by the Secretary of the Army that 
all or pait of the interests in land acquired as set forth in section 1 
of this Act no longer are necessary for purposes of the Allegheny 
Reservoir project, all right, title, and interests in such lands shall 
thereupon vest in the Seneca Nation. 
SEC. 16. No part of any expenditures made by the United States 
under any of the provisions of this Act shall be charged by the United 
States as an offset or counterclaim against any claim oi the Seneca 
Nation against the United States other than claims arising out of the 
acquisition of interests in land for the Allegheny Reservoir project. 
SEC.17. All funds authorized by this Act paid to the Seneca Nation 
"^^^ exemption. 
and individual Seneca Indians shall be exempt from all forms of State 
and Federal income taxes. 
SEC. 18. Except as specifically required to carry out the provisions virrotTwith^-''^'^* 
of this Act, the Department of the Interior shall not enlarge the serv- drawai'. 
ices which it is now in fact rendering to, or the supervision which it 
is now in fact exercising over the property and affairs of, the Seneca 
Nation and its members pursuant to the laws of the United States 
relating to Indians and Indian tribes. The Secretary of the Interior c<!^*^esV° 
shall, after consultation with the Seneca Nation, submit to the Congress 
a plan for complete withdrawal of Federal supervision over the prop-
erty and affairs of the Nation and its members. Said plan shall be 
submitted within three years from the effective date of this Act. 
Approved August 31, 1964. 
Public Law 88-534 
AN A C T 
August 31, 1964 
To amend section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 
[H. R. 9178] 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hmise of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventh 
cr*T^*"o*' 
and eighth sentences of section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and mittee^sys't^m's. 
Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)), are de- 
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leted and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "Farmers within any 
such local administrative area, and participating or cooperating in 
programs administered within such area, shall elect annually from 
among their number a local committee of not more than three members 
for such area. The members of the local committees shall, in a county 
convention, nominate and elect a county committee which shall consist 
of three members who are farmers in the county. At the first county 
convention held on or after the effective date of this sentence, one mem-
ber of the county committee shall be elected for one year; one member 
shall be elected for two years; and one member shall be elected for 
three years. Thereafter, each member of a county committee shall be 
elected for a term of three years. No member of the county commit-
tee shall be elected for more than three consecutive terms (exclusive of 
any term which began prior to the effective date of this sentence)." 
SEC. 2. Section 503 of the Act of August 26, 1954 (68 Stat. 908; 
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16^.S.C. 590h-3), is repealed. 
SEC. 3. Section 1 of this Act shall become effective for elections of 
Effective date. 
committeemen held on or after January 1, 1965. 
Approved August 31, 1964. 
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