An Act to repeal a particular contractual requirement with respect to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico.
PL 84-277 (S.1965), enacted 08/09/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 277-AUG. 9, 1955 
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be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The consideration for 
each sale, when so agreed upon and approved, shall be paid out of 
such funds of the Navaho Tribe as may be designated for this purpose 
by its governing body. The Secretary of the Interior and the appro-
priate officers of said Pueblos are authorized to execute such instru-
ments of conveyance as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate 
the transfer of title to any lands purchased by the Navaho Tribe 
under this section. 
SEC. 2. All proceeds received from each of the sales authorized by 
section 1 of this Act shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of the Pueblo making the sale in the account estab-
lished for such Pueblo pursuant to section 19 of the Act of June 7,1924 
(43 Stat. 636, 642), and, together with any other funds heretofore 
or hereafter deposited in the same account, shall be available for 
expenditure or advance for such purposes, except per capita payments, 
as may be designated by the governing body of such Pueblo and 
approved by the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of consolidating the lands of the Navaho 
Tribe, the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent of the governing 
body of said tribe, may exchange any lands purchased under section 
1 of this Act for any other lands situated in McKinley or Valencia 
Counties, New Mexico, that are owned by the United States, by the 
State of New Mexico, or a political subdivision thereof, or by any 
person; and, for the same purpose, the head of any department or 
agency having administrative jurisdiction over lands situated in said 
counties that are owned by the United States may exchange any such 
lands for lands purchased under section 1 of this Act. 
Approved August 9, 1955, 
Eiiblic Law 277 
CHAPTER 637 
Augusts, 1955 
AN A C T 
[S. 1965] 
Jo repeal a particular contractual requirement with respect to the Arch Hurley 
Conservancy District in New Mexico. 
Be it ermcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
se^vMlJjMDisScT, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in 
N. Mex. 
' the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a Federal 
reclamation project to furnish a water supply for the lands of the Arch 
Hurley Conservancy District in New Mexico", approved August 2, 
1937, as amended (43 U. S. C , sec. 600a), is amended by striking out 
the semicolon and the word "and" at the end of clause (c) and by 
striking out all of clause (d) to the period. No provision with respect 
to the matters covered in said clause (d) which is contained in any 
contract entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall, 
except as is otherwise provided by this Act, be enforced by the United 
States. 
Nothing contained in this section shall affect (1) the reten-
tion and application by the United States of any payments which have 
been made prior to the date of enactment of this Act in accordance 
with any such provision of a contract, (2) the obligation of any party 
to the United States with respect to any payment which is due to the 
United States under any such provision but not paid upon the date of 
enactment of this Act, and the application by the United States of 
any such payment in accordance with the terms of such contract, or 
(3) the enforcement of any such obligation by refusal to deliver water 
to lands covered by contractual provisions executed in accordance with 
said clause (d), except in those cases, if any, in which a sale or trans-
fer consummated between December 27, 1938, and the date of enact-
52 Stat. 211. 
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ment of this Act is only discovered after such date of enactment to 
have been made contrary to such contractual provisions or to said 
clause (d). 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to amend any 
contract, which has been entered into prior to the date of enactment 
of this Act, to conform with the provisions of the first section of this 
Act. 
The consent of the United States is hereby given to the record-
ing, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any such amended 
contract and to the simultaneous discharge of record of the original 
contract. 
The consent of the United States is likewise given to the 
discharge of record, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of 
any contract which the Secretary of the Interior or his duly author-
ized agent finds is rendered nugatory by the enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 278 
CHAPTER 638 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of May 19, 1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, so as to 
I)ermit per capita payments to the individual members of the Shoshone Tribe 
and the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, to be 
made quarterly. 
August 9,1955 
[S. 2087] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That section 3 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the segregation and expendi-
ture of trust funds held in joint ownership by the Shoshone and 
Arapahoe Tribes of the Wind River Reservation" approved May 19, 
1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, is hereby amended by striking 
the words "and the first day of March" wherever it appears therein, 
and inserting in lieu thereof "the first day of December, the first day 
of March, and the first day of June". 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Sho s h o n e and 
Arapahoe Tribes. 
Per capita pay-
ments. 
25 u s e 613. 
Public Law 279 
CHAPTER 639 
AN ACT 
August 9, 1955 
To further amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and for other 
[S. 2297] 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 312 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
1312), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
SEC, 312. (a) The Secretary shall, not later than December 1 of 
any marketing year, proclaim a national marketing quota for any 
kind of tobacco for each of the next three succeeding marketing years 
whenever he determines with respect to such kind of tobacco— 
(1) that a national marketing quota has not previously been 
proclaimed and the total supply as of the beginning of such 
marketing year exceeds the reserve supply level therefor; 
(2) that such marketing year is the last year of three consecu-
tive years for which marketing quotas previously proclaimed will 
be in eif 
ect j 
(3) that amendments have been made in provisions for estab-
lishing farm acreage allotments which will cause material revi-
sion of such allotments before the end of the period for which 
quotas are in effect; or 
Tobacco market-
ing quotas. 
52 Stat. 46.