An Act to declare that the United States holds certain lands on the Eastern Cherokee Reservation in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
PL 87-519 (H.R.11057), enacted 07/02/1962

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65 Stat. 721. 
PUBLIC LAW 87-519-JULY 2, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
Regulations. 
Separability. 
SEC. 10. Section 1114 of title 18 of the United States Code is 
amended by inserting after "wild birds and animals," the following: 
"any employee of the Department of Agriculture designated by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to carry out any law or regulation, or to 
perform any function in connection with any Federal or State program 
or any program of Puerto Kico, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the 
United states, or the District of Columbia, for the control or eradica-
tion or prevention of the introduction or dissemination of animal 
diseases,". 
SEC. 11. The Secretary is authorized to issue such regulations as he 
deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 12. The authority conferred by this Act shall be in addition to 
authority conferred by other statutes. Any provision of any other 
Act inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 13. If any provision of this Act or application thereof to any 
person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and 
the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances 
shall not be affected thereby. 
Approved July 2, 1962. 
July 2, 1962 
^ . R . 11057] 
Eastern Band of 
Cherokee Indians, 
N. C. 
Trust lands. 
Public Law 87-519 
AN ACT 
To declare that the United States holds certain lands on the Eastern Cherokee 
Reservation in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North 
Carolina. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the ri^ht, 
title, and interest of the United States in the following lands and im-
provements thereon, which are a part of the Long Blanket tracts, 
situated within the Eastern Cherokee Reservation, formerly acquired 
for school purposes, is hereby declared to be held by the United States 
of America in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of 
North Carolina: 
PARCEI. NO. 1 
Starting at a concrete monument with brass cap marked school 
tract corner 5,1950; 
thence north 45 degrees 00 minutes west 542.8 feet to a concrete 
monument with brass cap marked school tract corner numbered 
4,1950, beside a large mountain oak tree; thence north 26 degrees 
20 minutes east 314.1 feet to a point; thence south 77 degrees 51 
minutes east 127.4 feet up a ridge to a point; 
thence continuing along the ridge south 83 degrees 10 minutes 
east 67.3 feet to a point; thence continuing along the ridge south 
70 degrees 40 minutes east 85.1 feet to a point; thence south 41 
degrees 40 minutes east 245.0 feet to a point; thence down the 
ridge south 19 degrees 40 minutes east 83.3 feet, to a point; 
thence south 9 degrees 20 minutes west, 351.4 feet, to south 
side of gravel road right-of-way to a point; thence continuing 
along the right-of-way of said gravel road south 77 degrees 32 
minutes east, 150.5 feet, to a point; 
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thence south 86 degrees 36 minutes east 166.7 feet to a point; 
thence south 71 degrees 07 minutes east 69.4 feet to a point of 
the intersection of two gravel roads; thence continuing along the 
right-of-wa^ of said road south 33 degrees 48 minutes east 98.9 
feet to a point; 
thence leaving said road north 75 degrees 35 minutes west 376.1 
feet to a point; thence north 74 degrees 45 minutes west 242.6 feet 
to the point of beginning, containing 12.11 acres, more or less. 
PARCEL NO. 2 
Starting at a one and one half-inch iron pipe beside a concrete 
monument with brass cap marked "T.R. 6, Cor. 1, 1950", and running 
north 17 degrees 00 minutes east 145.1 feet to the point of beginning 
on the northeast right-of-way of United States Highways 19 and 441; 
thence north 75 decrees 00 minutes west 150.5 feet to the east 
right-of-way at the intersection of United States Highways 19 
and 441; thence continuing along the right-of-way north 12 
degrees 45 minutes west 70.6 feet to a point; 
thence north 3 degrees 31 minutes east 157.6 feet to a point; 
thence north 10 degrees 43 minutes east 654.8 feet to a point; 
thence north 19 degrees 22 minutes east 191.2 feet to a point; 
thence north 28 degrees 18 minutes 40 seconds east 254.7 feet to 
a point; thence north 35 degrees 05 minutes east 164.3 feet to 
a point; thence north 46 degrees 39 minutes 10 seconds east 370.3 
feet to a point; 
thence leaving the right-of-way and running south 17 degrees 
00 minutes west, 1,786.7 feet, to the point of beginning, containing 
8.50 acres, more or less. 
PARCEL NO. 3 
Beginning at a point on the east right-of-way of the agency road, 
at the end of a culvert that comes under the agency roadway, and 
running with Small Branch north 75 degrees 22 minutes east 530.4 
feet to a point; 
thence with said branch south 59 degrees 45 minutes east 81.2 
feet to a point on the right-of-way of United States Highway 441; 
thence along said right-of-way south 12 degrees 50 minutes west 
215.4 feet to a point on the intersection of rights-of-way of United 
States Highways 441 and 19; 
thence following the right-of-way of United States Highway 
19, north 84 degrees 18 minutes west 529.8 feet to a point at the 
intersection of the agency road right-of-way; thence following 
right-of-way of the agency road north 7 degrees 41 minutes west 
64.9 feet to the point of beginning; containing 2.1 acres, more 
or less. 
SEC. 2. The Indian Claims Commission is directed to determine in 
Indian claims 
accordance with the provisions of section 2 of the Act of August 13, Commission. 
1946 (60 Stat. 1050), the extent to which the value of the title con- 
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veyed by this Act should or should not be set off against any claim 
against the United States determined by the Commission. 
Approved July 2, 1962.