An Act to grant oil and gas in lands and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, to individual Indians in certain cases
PL 83-461 (H.R.3413), enacted 06/30/1954

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appointment, was credited with less than three years' service under the 
second sentence of subsection 506 (c) of the Officer Personnel Act of 
1947, shall, for promotion, seniority, and promotion-list-position pur-
poses, be credited as of the date of appointment with three years' 
service: Provided^ That no back pay or allowances shall be held to 
have accrued as the result of the enactment of this subsection for any 
period prior to the date of enactment thereof. 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
June 30, 1954 
[S.3481] 
Public Law 460 
CHAPTER 434 
AN ACT 
To amend sections 23A and 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended. 
Bank premises* 
48 Stat. 
Stat. 717. 183; 49 
48 Stat. 184. 
48 Stat. 162. 
12 u s e 221a. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the third para-
graph of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended (U. S. C , 
1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37lc), is amended by deleting therefrom the 
words "on June 16, 1934," and substituting in lieu thereof the word 
"solely"; and by deleting therefrom the words "or in maintaining and 
operating properties acquired for banking purposes prior to such 
date". 
SEC. 2. Section 24A of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended 
(U. S. C, 1952 edition, title 12, sec. 37ld), is amended by inserting 
after the words "investments and loans" a comma and the words 
"together with the amount of any indebtedness incurred by any such 
corporation which is an aifiliate of the bank, as defined in section 2 of 
the Banking Act of 1933, as amended,". 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
June 30, 1954 
[H. R. 3413] 
Public Law 461 
CHAPTER 
435 
AN ACT 
To grant oil and gas in lands and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
issue patents in fee on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, to individ-
ual Indians in certain cases. 
Fort Peck Indian 
Reservation, Mont. 
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grants. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the oil and gas 
in land located within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 
allotted on or after March 3, 1927, which is now reserved to the 
Indians having tribal rights on such reservation by the first section 
of the Act of March 3,1927 (44 Stat. 1401), relating to oil and gas in 
certain tribal lands within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mon-
tana, is hereby granted to the allottee of such lands, or, if such Indian 
Lieu allotments, is deceased, to his heirs or devisees: Provided^ That if the allottee or 
his heirs or devisees, relinquished such allotment and received a lieu 
allotment of other lands in the said reservation or transferred title to 
such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in exchange therefor, 
received an assignment of the same or other lands in the said reserva-
tion, the oil and gas hereby granted shall be only that in the land in 
the lieu allotment or the exchange assignment, as the case may be. 
SEC. 2. If on or after March 3, 1927, the allottee or his heirs or 
devisees, relinquished an allotment made prior to March 3, 1927, and 
received a lieu allotment of other lands in the said reservation or 
transferred title to such allotment to the Fort Peck Tribe and, in 
exchange therefor, received an assignment of the same or other lands 
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in the said reservation, the oil or gas in the land in such lieu allotment 
or such exchange assignment is hereby granted to the holder of the lieu 
allotment or the exchange assignment, as the case may be, unless the 
allottee or his heirs or devisees reserved the oil and gas in the lands 
transferred or relinquished. 
SEC. 3. Title to the oil and gas granted by this Act shall be held 
in trust by the United States for the Indian owners, except where the 
entire interest in the oil and gas is granted to Indians to whom a fee 
patent for any land within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation has 
heretofore been issued, in which event the unrestricted fee simple 
title is hereby granted to the Indian owner, and except where the 
entire interest in the oil and gas is hereafter held for Indians to whom 
a fee patent for any land within said reservation has heretofore or 
hereafter been issued or who are determined by the Secretary of the 
Interior to be competent to manage their own affairs, in which event 
the unrestricted fee simple title shall be transferred to the Indian 
owner by the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. If the Secretary of the Interior determines that the entire 
interest in land, including land held under an exchange assignment, 
on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation is owned by Indians who are the 
grantees of oil and gas under this Act and who are competent to 
manage their own affairs, he is authorized and directed to issue fee 
patents to them for such interest. 
SEC. 5. No oil and gas lease which was entered into pursuant to the 
first section of the Act of March 3, 1927, which covers in whole or in 
part the lands referred to in sections 1 and 2 of this Act, and which is 
in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be affected by 
reason of the enactment of this Act, except that any royalties ancl 
other moneys payable under such lease after such date of enactment, 
which are attributable to the oil and gas granted to an Indian by sec-
tions 1 or 2 of this Act shall be payable to such Indian, or if such 
Indian is deceased, to his heirs or devisees. 
SEC. 6. This Act shall not apply to oil and gas in tribal land which, 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, is otherwise undisposed of. 
SEC. 7. Any and all moneys collected by the tribes as advance rentals, 
bonus, and royalties of oil and gas leases after March 3,1927, and prior 
to the transfer of said oil and gas rights pursuant to this Act to said 
individual Indians may also be paid by authority of said executive 
board to the individual Indians to whom said oil and gas rights are 
transferred pursuant to this Act. 
SEC. 8. The provisions of this Act shall not be effective unless 
approved in a referendum by a majority of the members of the Fort 
Peck Tribe actually voting therein: Promded^ That the total vote 
cast shall not be less than 30 per centum of those entitled to vote. 
This referendum shall be conducted on not less than sixty days' 
notice under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior or his duly 
authorized representative. 
Approved June 30, 1954. 
T i t l e s and fee 
patents. 
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leases. 
Nonappli c ability* 
Advance rentals, 
etc. 
Effectivity. 
Public Law 462 
CHAPTER 436 
AN ACT 
June 30, 1954 
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O approve the repayment contract negotiated with the Roza Irrigation District, 
[H. R. 6487] 
Yakima project, Washington, and to authorize its execution, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the repayment 
R o z a Irrigation 
District. 
Repayment c o n -
tract.