An Act to amend section 67 of the National Defense Act, as amended, to provide for An Active duty status for all United States property and fiscal officers
PL 83-477 (S.2217), enacted 07/06/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 477-JULY 6, 1954 
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struction, operation and maintenance of the dam and reservoir: Pro-
vided further^ That the foregoing authorization shall be in addition 
to authorizations heretofore made for appropriations for flood-control 
projects for the Department of the Army. 
SEC. 4. The sale, transfer, assignment, grant, or conveyance to the 
Grand River Dam Authority of such land, ecisements and flowage 
rights owned by the United States of America as may be necessary 
for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Markham 
Ferry project by the Grand River Dam Authority is hereby authorized 
and directed. 
The conveyance of such lands or interests therein shall 
be made by the Secretary of the Army, notwithstanding the provisions 
of any other law or requirement to the contrary. Other officials having 
jurisdiction over such lands are authorized and directed to transfer 
custody of such land to the Secretary of the Army. 
Reimbursement 
for the fair market value of said lands will be made by the Chief 
of Engineers from funds appropriated pursuant to this Act. 
No such 
conveyance shall be made until funds have been appropriated pursuant 
to section 3 of this Act and until a license for the Markham Ferry 
project has been issued by the Federal Power Commission. In addi-
tion to the foregoing monetary contribution, the Secretary of the 
Army is authorized and directed to transfer engineering data includ-
ing maps, survey reports and data, drilling records and designs as 
will be of value to the Grand River Dam Authority in planning, con-
struction, maintenance, and operation of the Markham Ferry project. 
Approved July 6, 1954. 
Conveyance. 
Reimbursement. 
FPC Ucense. 
E n g i n e e r i n g 
data. 
Public Law 477 
CHAPTER 462 
AN ACT 
To amend section 67 of the National Defense Act, as amended, to provide for an 
active-duty status for all United States property and fiscal ofllcers. 
July 6, 1954 
[S.2217] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third para-
graph of section 67 of the National Defense Act, as amended (32 
U. S. C. 49), is amended to read as follows: 
"PROPERTY AND FISCAL OFFICERS.—The Governor of each State and 
Territory and the Commanding General of the National Guard of the 
District of Columbia shall appoint, designate, or detail, subject to the 
approval of the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force, a qualified 
officer of the National Guard of the United States or the Air National 
Guard of the United States, who is an officer of the National Guard 
or Air National Guard of the State, Territory, or District of 
Columbia and who shall be the United States property and fiscal 
officer. The President may with the consent of the officer con-
cerned, if such officer is not on active duty, order him to active duty 
to serve as United States property and fiscal officer of the State, 
Territory, or the District of Columbia, for which appointed, desig-
nated or detailed, and, upon relief from assignment as United States 
property and fiscal officer, he shall revert to his National Guard or Air 
National Guard status. The United States property and fiscal officer 
shall receipt and account for all funds and property belonging to the 
United States in possession of the National Guard or Air National 
Guard of the State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, and shall 
make such returns and reports pertaining thereto as may be required 
by the appropriate Secretary. 
Before entering upon his duties as 
property and fiscal officer he shall be required to give good and 
sufficient bond to the United States, the amount thereof to be deter-
mined by the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, for the faith-
U. S. pro p er ty 
andfiscal officers. 
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ful performance of his duties and for the safekeeping and proper 
disposition of the Federal property entrusted to his care. He shall 
receive pay and allowances provided by law. 
The appropriate Secre-
tary shall cause an inspection of the pertinent accounts and records 
of the United States property and fiscal officer to be made by an 
Inspector General of his Department at least once each year. 
The 
Secretaries shall make joint rules and regulations necessary to carry 
into effect the provisions of this section, which rules and regulations 
shall establish a maximum grade, not above colonel, for the United 
States property and fiscal officer of each State, Territory, and the Dis-
trict of Columbia, which grade shall be commensurate with the duties, 
functions, and responsibilities of the office. 
Approved July 6, 1954. 
July 6, 1954 
[H. R. 2231] 
Public Law 478 
CHAPTER 463 
AN ACT 
To authorize the negotiation and ratification of separate settlement contracts 
• with the Sioux Indians of the Lower Brule and the Crow Creek Keservations 
in South Dakota for Indian lands and rights acquired by the United States 
for the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir, Missouri River Development, to 
authorize a transfer of funds from the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary 
of the Interior and to authorize an appropriation for the removal from the 
taking area of the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir, Missouri River Develop-
ment, and the reestablishment of the Indians of the Yankton Indian Reserva-
tion in South Dakota. 
Sioux Indians. 
Settlement con-
tracts. 
Contract 
provi-
sions. 
O i l 
rights. a n d 
g a s 
Be it endcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Chief of 
Engineers, Department of the Army, arid the Secretary of the Interior, 
jointly representing the United States of America are hereby author-
ized and directed to negotiate separate contracts containing the pro-
visions outlined in this Act with the Sioux Indians of the Lower Brule 
Reservation, South Dakota, and with the Sioux Indians of the Crow 
Creek Reservation, South Dakota, acting through representatives of 
each tribe appointed for such purpose by its tribal council. 
SEC. 2. The contract with each tribe negotiated pursuant to section 
1 of this Act shall— 
(a) convey to the United States title to all tribal, allotted, assigned, 
and inherited lands or interests therein belonging to the Indians of 
the tribe, and title to all undivided interests in such allotted or in-
herited lands owned by non-Indians or by Indian nonmembers of the 
tribe, required by the United States for the reservoir to be created by 
the construction of the dams across the Missouri River in South 
Dakota, to be known as Fort Randall Dam, including such lands along 
the margins as may be required by the Chief of Engineers, Department 
of the Army, for the protection, development, and use of said reser-
voir : Provided^ That the contract may provide for retention by the 
owners of any oil and gas rights in such lands that are not needed by 
the United States for the protection of such dam and reservoir; 
(b) provide for the payment of— 
(1) just compensation for the lands and improvements and 
interests therein conveyed by the contract; 
(2) costs of relocating the tribe and its members who reside 
upon the lands conveyed by the contract in a manner that will re-
establish and protect their economic, social, religious, and com-
munity life;