Proposed Amendments to the 1958 Navajo-U.S. Land Exchange Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2156 : a Bill to Amend the Act of September 2, 1958, Relating to the Exchange of Lands Between the United States and the Navajo Tribe, to Clarify the Intent of Congress with Respect to Certain Excepted Rights. June 22, 1960

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960 - 60 páginas
Considers S. 2156, to amend the Navajo-U.S. Land Exchange Act of Sept. 2, 1958 to provide that valid existing rights on land exchanged with the Navajo Indians in Utah include the rights of applicants for mineral leases.

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Página 11 - Yuma and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon: Provided, however.
Página 33 - ... known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field who is qualified to hold a lease under this Act...
Página 8 - Subject to the provision of section 2 of this act and subject to valid existing rights, all public lands of the United States within said exterior boundaries of said reservation are hereby declared to be held in trust for the benefit of the Navajo Tribe of Indians.
Página 11 - ... degree of west longitude; thence due south to place of beginning: Provided, That any tract or tracts within the region of country described as aforesaid which are settled upon or occupied, or to which valid rights have attached under existing laws of the United States prior to date of this order, are hereby excluded from this reservation.
Página 13 - ... 1887 (24 Stats. 388), and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 28, 1891 (26 Stats. 794). THEODORE ROOSEVELT. THE WHITE HOUSE, March 10, 1905. It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated in the State of Utah be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart for Indian purposes as an addition to the Navajo Indian Reservation, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Montezuma Creek (in Utah); running thence due east to the Colorado State line; thence...
Página 11 - E. ; thence north on said range line to the place of beginning : Provided, That any tract or tracts within the region of country described as aforesaid, which are settled upon or occupied, or to which valid rights have attached under existing laws of the United States prior to the date of this order, are hereby excluded from the Reservation.
Página 2 - Sincerely yours, PHILLIP S. HUGHES, Assistant Director for Legislative Reference. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, September 24, 1963.
Página 8 - ... Agreement." HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, September 12, 1945. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9613 WITHDRAWING AND RESERVING FOR THE USE OF THE UNITED STATES LANDS CONTAINING RADIO-ACTIVE MINERAL SUBSTANCES By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. Subject to valid existing rights, all public lands of the United States, including Alaska, which contain deposits of radio-active mineral substances, and all deposits of such substances, are hereby...
Página 33 - The Mineral Leasing Act does not say that the applicant is entitled to a lease. Rather, it specifically states that he "shall be entitled to a preference right over others to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding.
Página 11 - ... WHITE HOUSE, May 15, 1905. The Executive order of March 10, 1905, setting apart certain lands in Utah as an addition to the Navajo Indian Reservation, is hereby canceled, and in lieu thereof it is hereby ordered that the following-described lands situated in said State be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and entry and set apart for Indian purposes as an addition to the said Indian reservation, viz: Beginning at the corner to sections 25 and 30, 31 and 36, on the range line between...

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