An Act relative to the exploration, location, and entry of mineral lands within the Papago Indian Reservation
PL 84-47 (H.R.2682), enacted 05/27/1955

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Each such agreement shall include a waiver by each party of all claims 
against every other party for compensation for any loss, damage, per-
sonal injury, or death occurring in consequence of the performance of 
such agreement. 
Any such agreement may provide for the reimburse-
ment of any party for all or any part of the cost incurred by such party 
in furnishing fire protection for or on behalf of any other party. 
(b) Any agreement heretofore executed which would have been 
authorized by this Act, if this Act had been in effect on the date of 
execution thereof, is hereby ratified and confirmed. 
SEC. 3. In the absence of any agreement authorized or ratified by 
section 2, each agency head is authorized to render emergency assist-
ance in extinguishing fires and in preserving life and property from 
fire, within the vicinity of any place at which such agency maintains 
fire-protection facilities, when the rendition of such assistance is 
determined, under regulations prescribed by the agency head, to be 
in the best interest of the United States. 
SEC. 4. Any service performed under section 2 or section 3 of this 
Act, by any officer or employee of the United States or any member 
of any armed force of the United States shall constitute service 
rendered in line of duty in such office, employment, or .force. 
The 
performance of such service by any other individual shall not consti-
tute such individual an officer or employee of the United States for 
the purposes of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as 
amended. 
SEC. 5. Funds available to any agency head for fire protection 
on installations or in connection with activities under the jurisdiction 
of such agency may be used to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
All 
sums received by any agency head for fire protection rendered pur-
suant to this Act shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 
Approved May 27, 1955. 
Emergency 
sistance* 
Service< 
39 Stat. 742. 
5 u s e 751 note. 
Funds. 
Public Law 47 
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May 27, 1955 
Kelative to the exploration, location, and entry of mineral lands within the 
[H. R. 2682] 
Papago Indian Reservation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the provisions 
with resj)ect to subjection of mineral lands within the Papago Indian 
Reservation to exploration, location, and entry under the mining laws 
of the United States in the Executive order dated February 1, 1917, 
creating the Papago Indian Reservation, and in the third proviso in 
section 1 of the Act of February 21,1931 (46 Stat. 1202), and the pro-
visions of subsection (b) (1) and (2) and of the remainder, following 
the word "purposes," of subsection (b) (4) of section 3 of the Act of 
June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984; 25 U. S. C. 461-479), as amended by the 
Act of August 26,1937 (50 Stat. 862, 863; 25 U. S. C. 463), are hereby 
repealed, all tribal lands within the Papago Indian Reservation are 
hereby withdrawn from all forms of exploration, location, and entry 
under such laws, the minerals underlying such lands are hereby made 
a part of the reservation to be held in trust by the United States for 
the Papago Indian Tribe, and such minerals shall be subject to lease 
for mining purposes pursuant to the provisions of the Act of May 11, 
1938 (52 Stat. 347) : Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not 
be applicable to lands within the Papago Indian Reservation for which 
a mineral patent has heretofore been issued or to a claim that has been 
Papago I n d i a n 
Reservation. 
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validly initiated before the date of this Act and thereafter maintained 
under the mining laws of the United States. 
SEC. 2. Section 6 of the Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347, 348; 25 
U. S. C. 396f), is amended by deleting therefrom "the Papago Indian 
Reservation in Arizona,". 
Approved May 27, 1955. 
Public Law 48 
CHAPTER 107 
May 27, 1955 
[H. J. Res. 310] 
S e c o n d tfrgent 
Deficiency Appro-
priation Act, 1955. 
Ante, p» 64. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making additional appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and 
for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums 
are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to supply additional appropriations (this Act may be 
cited as the "Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1955") 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
INDEPENDENT 
O F F I C E S 
COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE 
BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses", to complete 
the operations of the Commission as provided by Public Law 41 
(S. 1763), Eighty-fourth Congress, $263,475. 
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for "Readjustment benefits", $25,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
Approved May 27, 1955. 
Public Law 49 
CHAPTER H I 
June 1, 1955 
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Austin, Tex. 
Conveyance. 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to convey certain property located in Austin, 
Travis County, Texas, to the State of Texas. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernbled, That the Secretary 
of the Army is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the State of Texas all right, title, and interest 
of the United States, in and to the following-described land in Austin, 
Travis County, Texas, together with all buildings, improvements 
thereon, and all appurtenances and utilities belonging or appertaining 
thereto, such land including approximately one hundred eighty-nine 
and eleven one-hundredths acres out of the original two hundred acres 
known as the Camp Mabry Militia Rifle Range Tract, also referred to 
as the "old Deison Farm": 
Beginning at the southwest coiner of the fifty-three-acre tract here-
tofore conveyed to J. J. Gasser by deed dated February 23, 1895, 
recorded in volume 129, page 347, of deed records of Travis County,