An Act to amend the act extending the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah so as to authorize such State to exchange certain mineral lands for other lands mineral in character.
PL 84-263 (S.878), enacted 08/09/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 262-AUG. 9, 1955 
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particularly described as follows: The southeast quarter of the south-
east quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and 
the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast 
quarter of the southeast quarter of section 12, township 130 north, 
range 80 west, fifth principal meridian, consisting of five acres more 
or less. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall— 
(a) exclude conveyance of any rights to oil, gas, or other 
mineral deposits in the land conveyed, but the development of 
any such mineral deposits, which would in any manner interfere 
with the use of such land as a State historic site, shall not be 
permitted so long as such land is so used; and 
(b) be subject to the condition that in the event the land 
conveyed should cease to be used as a State historic site title to 
such land shall revert to the United States to be held in the 
same manner it was held prior to such conveyance. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
August 9, 1955 
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Public Law 262 
CHAPTER 622 
AN ACT 
To continue the effectiveness of the Act of July 17, 1953 (67 Stat. 177), as 
amended, providing certain construction and other authority. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Eepresentatives 
of the 
United States of America in ('ongress assembled. That the provisions 
of the Act of July 17, 1953 (67 Stat. 177), as amended and extended 
by the Act of July 26, 1954 (68 Stat. 531), shall remain in full force 
and effect until six months after the termination of the national emer-
gency proclaimed by the President on December 16,1950, or until such 
date as may be specified by a concurrent resolution of the Congress, 
or until July 1,1956, whichever is earliest. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
August 9, 1955 
[S. 878] 
Public Law 263 
CHAPTER 623 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act extending the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray 
Indian Reservation in the State of Utah so as to authorize such State to 
exchange certain mineral lands for other lands mineral in character. 
Uintah and Oiiray 
I n d i a n 
Reserva-
tion, Utah. 
Mineral land ex-
change. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Conor ess assembled^ That section 3 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to define the exterior boundary of the 
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and 
for other purposes", approved March 11, 1948 (62 Stat. 72), is 
amended by striking out the first sentence of such section and insert-
ing in lieu thereof the following: "The State of Utah may relinquish 
to the United States for the benefit of the Indians of the said Ute 
Reservation such tracts of school or other State-owned lands, sur-
veyed or unsurveyed, within the said reserved area, as it may see fit 
(reserving to said State, if it so desires, such rights as it may possess 
to any minerals underlying such State lands as may be relinquished), 
and said State shall have the right to make selections, including min-
eral lands and the minerals therein (including oil and gas) if the 
lands relinquished are mineral in character and rights to the minerals 
in such lands are relinquished along with the lands, in lieu thereof