A bill to provide means for the acquisition and retention of title to certain lands by the village corporation organized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for the Natives of the village of Kake, Alaska, and for other purposes.
PL 95-487 (H.R.14026), enacted 10/20/1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-487—OCT. 20, 1978 
92 STAT. 1635 
Public Law 95-487 
95th Congress 
An Act 
To provide means for the acquisition and retention of title to certain lands by the 
village corporation organized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act for the Natives of the village of Kake, Alaska, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) notwith-
standing any other provisions of law, any Indian tribal or other entity 
that holds any lands described in section 2 of this Act, or interests 
therein, in fee simple may freely alienate and convey such lands or 
interests therein to others and, upon request of any Indian tribal or 
other entity for whom the United States holds title in trust to any lands 
described in section 2 of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
convey such lands to such entity in fee simple, free of all encumbrances 
and restrictions whatsoever, and (b) notwithstanding any other pro-
visions of law, the corporation organized for the Natives of the village 
of Kake, Alaska, pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 
85 Stat. 688, as amended and supplemented, shall be entitled to retain, 
and shall not be required to reconvey to any others, title to the surface 
estate in any lands described in section 2 of this Act that is conveyed to 
it pursuant to the Settlement Act. 
SEC. 2. The lands subject to this Act are: 
(a) That portion of United States Survey 963 in section 35, township 
56 south, range 72 east. Copper River Meridian, Alaska, described as 
follows: 
Beginning at the southwest corner of United States Survey 963, 
thence along the south boundary of said survey north 67 degrees 24 
minutes 20 seconds east, a distance of 220.53 leet to a point on the 
boundary of power easement numbered E-2 of the Alaska Department 
of Highways; thence along the boundary of said easement north 34 
degrees west a distance of 36.71 feet to a point which coincides with 
a corner on the boundary of such easement; thence continuing on the 
boundary of such easement, nortJi 9 degrees 30 minutes west a distance 
of 100 feet; thence north 61 degrees 16 minutes 58 seconds west a 
distance of 149.93 feet; thence south 76 degrees 35 minutes west a 
distance of 100 feet to a point on the west boundary of United States 
Survey 963; thence along said boundary south 13 degrees 25 minutes 
east a distance of 270 feet to the point of beginning, containing 1.09 
acres, more or less, togetJier with all improvements thereon and 
appurtenances thereto; 
(b) That portion of lot 2 of United States Survey 3852 that lies 
between the west side of Keku Road as presently alined and Keku 
Straight, containing less than 1 acre, together with all improvements 
thereon and appurtenances thereto; and 
Oct. 20. 1978 
[H.R. 14026] 
Indians. 
Acquisition and 
retention of 
certain lands, 
Kake, Alaska. 
43 u s e 1601 
note. 
92 STAT. 1636 
PUBLIC LAW 95-4fi7—OCT. 20, 1978 
(c) That portion of Alaska Tideland Survey Numbered 1091 desig-
nated as parcel E on the preliminary plat thereof, containing 2.183 
acres, more or less, together with all improvements thereon and 
appurtenances thereto. 
Approved October 20, 1978. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 95-1615 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 124 (1978): 
Oct. 2, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 4, considered and passed Senate.