An Act to provide that the United States hold in trust for the Pueblos of Zia and Jemez a part of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant and a small area of public domain adjacent thereto
PL 84-926 (H.R.5712), enacted 08/02/1956

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(c) The Secretary, on behalf of the United States, is authorized 
to accept donations of real and personal property within the areas 
selected for the park until such time as the aforesaid total of nine thou-
sand five hundred acres shall have been acquired for the park by the 
United States, and he may also accept donations of funds for the pur-
poses of this Act; 
(d) Any Federal properties situated within the areas selected for 
the park, upon agreement by the particular agency administering 
such properties that such properties should be made available for the 
park, may be transferred without further authorization to the Secre-
tary by such agency for purposes of this Act; 
(e) Establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, in its 
initial phase, shall be and is hereby declared to be accomplished and 
effective for purposes of administration when a minimum acreage of 
not less than five thousand acres in Federal ownership for purposes 
of this Act shall have been acquired by the United States in specific 
areas containing such acquired lands to be designated by the Secretary; 
and 
(f) Notice of the establishment of the park as authorized and pre-
scribed by this Act shall be published in the Federal Register. 
SEO. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from Federal 
funds a sum not in excess of $60,000 for capital improvements for 
said Virgin Islands National Park, and a sum of not in excess of 
$30,000 annually for the administration of the Virgin Islands National 
Park. 
lApproved August 2, 1966. 
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Public Law 926 
CHAPTER 886 
AN ACT 
August 2, 1956 
To provide that the United States hold in trust for the Pueblos of Zia and Jemez 
[H. R. 5712] 
a part of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant and a small area of public domain 
adjacent thereto. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That title to the 
following land and the improvements thereon owned by the United 
States of America, situated within Sandoval County in the State of 
New Mexico, is hereby declared to be in the United States of America 
in trust for the Pueblo of Zia, subject to valid existing rights: Begin-
ning at the southeast corner of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as 
described on the plat of said grant approved by Clarence Pullin, sur-
veyor general of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885, 
said corner being in section 8, township 15 north, range 1 east. New 
Mexico principal meridian; thence west along the south boundary of 
said grant approximately 5 miles, 42 chains; thence north approxi-
mately 1 mile, 20 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence north 3 miles; 
thence east 40 chains; thence north 7 miles to the northeast corner of 
unsurveyed section 17, township 17 north, range 1 west, New Mexico 
principal meridian; thence east approximately 5 miles, 68 chains to 
the east boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described 
on the plat of township 17 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal 
meridian, approved in the Department of the Interior, General Land 
Office, Washington, District of Columbia, August 18,1930, which point 
is common to the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego Grant 
as described on the plat approved August 18, 1930; thence south 
approximately 5.25 chains along the common boundary of said two 
grants; thence continuing south along the west boundary of the Canon 
Pueblo of Zia. 
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de San Diego Grant approximately 3 miles, 74.75 chains to a point 
which is north 18.61 chains from the southwest corner of the Canon 
de San Diego Grant; thence west 37.01 chains to the east boundary 
of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of said 
grant approved by Clarence Pullin, surveyor general of New Mexico, 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885; thence south along the east 
boundary of said grant a distance of approximately 7 miles, 20.38 
chains to the point of beginning, containing approximately 41,856 
acres, excepting therefrom approximately 640 acres of land and the 
improvements thereon used by the United States of America for admin-
istrative purposes, which exception, when surveyed, will probably be 
described as west half section 15 and east half section 16, township 17 
north, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian. 
SEC. 2. That title to the following-described land and the improve-
ments thereon owned by the United States of America, situated within 
Sandoval County in the State of New Mexico is hereby declared to be 
in the United States of America in trust for the Pueblo of Jemez, 
subject to valid existing rights: Beginning at the northwest corner 
of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described on the plat of said 
grant approved by Clarence Pullin, surveyor general of New Mexico, 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885, said point being in section 6, 
township 18 north, range 1 west. New Mexico principal meridian; 
thence east along the north boundary of said grant approximately 
6 miles, 9.49 chains to the east line of section 6, township 18 north, 
range 1 east. New Mexico principal meridian, which point is 7.51 
chains west of the northeast corner of said grant as described on the 
plat of township 18 north, range 1 east, of the New Mexico principal 
meridian by the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, 
Washington, D. C , August 18,1930; thence north 39.70 chains; thence 
east 44.13 chains to the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego 
Grant as described on the plat approved August 18,1930; thence south 
along the west boundary of said grant approximately 7 miles, 76.02 
chains; thence west approximately 7 miles, 68 chains to the northeast 
corner of unsurveyed section 13, township 17 north, range 2 west, 
New Mexico principal meridian; thence north 1 mile; thence west 
approximately 40 chains to the west boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu 
Santo Grant as described on the official survey plat of said grant; 
thence following the west boundary of said grant a distance of approx-
imately 6 miles to the point of beginning (the northwest corner of 
said grant), containing approximately 36,515.76 acres, excepting there-
from lots 2, 5, south half southwest quarter of section 5 and lot 9 of 
section 6, township 18 north, range 1 east. New Mexico principal 
meridian, containing 163.76 acres, more or less, as shown on the plat 
of township 18 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, 
approved in the Department of the Interior, General Land Office, 
August 18, 1930. 
SEC. 3. In the administration of the lands to be held in trust hy the 
United States pursuant to this Act, together with any remaining 
lands comprising the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, or any officer or agency of the United States hereafter 
administering such lands, shall make the livestock grazing capacity of 
the lands held in trust under sections 1 and 2 hereof available to the 
Zia and Jemez Indians to the extent of four hundred cattle units 
yearlong, and the remaining lands available to the non-Indians in-
cluded in the provisions of the Executive Order (Number 8697) 
signed by the President on February 28,1941. 
Approved August 2, 1956.