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 Development, and the reestablishment of the Indians of the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota
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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; 
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(3) costs of relocating Indian cemeteries, tribal monuments, 
and shrines located upon the lands conveyed by the contract. 
(c) Provide a schedule of dates for the orderly removal of the 
Indians and their personal property from the taking area of the Fort 
Randall Reservoir within the reservation; and 
(d) State that the payments authorized to be made shall be in full 
and complete settlement of all claims by the tribe and its members 
against the United States arising because of the construction of the 
Fort Randall project. 
SEC. 3. The just compensation payable for the individual property 
of any person conveyed pursuant to subsection (a) of section 2 of this 
Act shall be judicially determined, if such person rejects the compen-
sation specified in the contract with the tribe, in proceedings instituted 
for such purpose by the Department of the Army in the united States 
district court for the district in which the lands are situated. 
SEC. 4. To assist the negotiators in arriving at the amount of just 
compensation payable for the property conveyed pursuant to sub-
section (a) of section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, shall cause to be 
prepared an appraisal schedule on an individual tract basis of the 
tribal, allotted, and assigned lands, including heirship interests 
therein, located within the taking area in each reservation. 
The 
appraisal schedule shall show the fair market value of the lands, 
giving full and proper weight to the following elements of appraisal, 
among others: Improvements, severance damage, standing timber, 
mineral rights, and the uses to which the lands are reasonably adapted. 
The appraisal schedule shall be transmitted to the representatives of 
the tribe appointed to negotiate a contract, and shall be used, together 
with any other appraisals which may be available, as a basis for deter-
mining the amount of just compensation to be included in the contract. 
SEC. 5. The specification in section 2 of this Act of certain provisions 
to be included in each contract shall not preclude the inclusion of other 
provisions beneficial to the Indians who are parties of such contracts. 
SEC. 6. Each contract negotiated pursuant to this Act shall be sub-
mitted to the Congress for approval. The Chief of Engineers, Depart-
ment of the Army, and the Secretary of the Interior are requested to 
submit such contract within one year from the date of approval of 
this Act. 
If the negotiating parties are unable to agree on a pro-
posed contract each party shall submit to the Congress separate 
detailed reports of the negotiations, together with their recommenda-
tions. 
In the event the negotiating parties are unable to agree on any 
provision in the proposed contracts such provision shall be included 
in an appendix to the contract, together with the views of each party, 
for consideration and determination by Congress. The contract shall 
not take effect unless, after determination of any disputed provision, 
it is ratified by Act of Congress and is ratified within six months after 
such action by the Congress by a majority of the adult members of 
the tribe: Provided^ That when so ratified the contract shall constitute 
a taking by the United States as of the date the contract was signed by 
the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, and the Secretary 
of the Interior, for purposes of determining the ownership of the 
Indian tribal, allotted, and assigned lands and interests therein. 
SEC. 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict completion 
of the Fort Randall Dam to provide flood protection and other benefits 
on the Missouri River. 
SEC. 8. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secre-
tary of the Interior the sum of $106,500, which shall be available until 
Judicial d e t e r -
mination. 
Appraisal sched' 
ule* 
Approval of Con-
gEress. 
Reports. 
F ort 
R a n d a l l 
Dam. 
Appropriatio n. 
R e l o c a t i o n o f 
Y a n k t o n S i o u x 
Tribe. 
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expended for the purpose of relocating the members of the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, who reside or have resided, on tribal and 
allotted lands acquired by the United States for the Fort Randall 
Dam and Reservoir project, Missouri River Development, in a manner 
that will reestablish and protect their economic, social, religious, and 
community life. 
Title to any lands acquired within Indian country 
pursuant to this section shall be taken in the name of the United States 
m trust for the Yankton Sioux Tribe or members thereof. The said 
sum of $106,500 shall be assessed against the costs of the Fort Randall 
Dam and Reservoir, Missouri River Development. 
Approved July 6, 1954. 
July 8, 1954 
[H. R. 
Public Law 479 
CHAPTER 466 
AN ACT 
6465] 
To amend paragraph 1530 of the TarifE Act of 1930 with respect to footwear. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
footwearf*"'"^*** United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph 
Dutv. 
1530 (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, is amended by adding 
19 usc'iooi'par. at the end thereof the following: "For the purposes of this paragraph 
1530(e). 
Effective date. 
and any existing or future proclamation of the President relating 
thereto, footwear of which a major portion, in area, of the basic wear-
ing surface of the outer soles (that part of the article, not including 
the heel, that is designed to be the basic wearing surface and to resist 
wear on contact with any surface) is composed of india rubber or any 
substitute for rubber, or both, shall be deemed to have soles wholly 
or in chief value of india rubber or substitutes for rubber." 
The 
foregoing amendment shall enter into force as soon as practicable, 
on a date to be specified by the President in a notice to the Secretary 
of the Treasury following such negotiations as may be necessary to 
effect a modification or termination of any international obligations 
of the United States with which the amendment might conflict, but 
in any event not later than one hundred and eighty days after the 
passage of this Act. 
Approved July 8, 1954. 
July 10,1954 
[S.2475] 
Public Law 480 
CHAPTER 469 
AN ACT 
To increase the consumption of United States agricultural commodities in foreign 
countries, to improve the foreign relations of the United States, and for other 
purposes. 
Trade 
D e v e l o p -
m e n t and Assist-
ance Act of 1954. 
Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be 
cited as the "Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 
1954". 
SEC, 2. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to expand 
international trade among the United States and friendly nations, to 
facilitate the convertibility of currency, to promote the economic sta-
bility of American agriculture and the national welfare, to make maxi-
mum efficient use of surplus agricultural commodities in furtherance 
of the foreign policy of the United States, and to stimulate and facili-
tate the expansion of foreign trade in agricultural commodities pro-
duced in the United States by providing a means whereby surplus 
agricultural commodities in excess of the usual marketings of such