Quechan Tribe of Fort Yuma Reservation, California: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session on Oversight on Quechan Land Issue, May 3 and June 24, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 195 pages |
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1893 Agreement 28 Stat acres Agreement of 1893 All-American Canal allotments amended approved Arizona AUSTIN Bill Mojave Bureau of Land Bureau of Reclamation California ceded cession Chairman Colorado River Irrigation Commissioner of Indian conclusion Congressional construction County court D.C. DEAR dated December decision Draft Opinion Executive Order granted hereby Imperial Irrigation District Indian Affairs Indian Claims Commission Indian lands interest Interior interpretation irrigable lands issue January January 24 January 9 land laws language lease letter Margold opinion meeting ment non-Indian non-irrigable lands Office open to settlement Pacific Railroad proposed opinion Proposed Solicitor's Opinion public domain pursuant Quechan Indians Quechan lands Quechan Tribe ratified Reclamation Act request reservation boundaries reservation lands right-of-way River Irrigation Company Secretarial Order Secretary KLEPPE Senator ABOUREZK Solicitor Margold Southern Pacific Railroad statute tion tribal U.S. DEPARTMENT U.S. Senate United Washington Water District Yuma County Yuma Indian Reservation Yuma Reservation
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Page 109 - And if any conveyance shall be made of the lands set apart and allotted as herein provided, or any contract made touching the same, before the expiration of the time above mentioned, such conveyance or contract shall be absolutely null and void...
Page 107 - An Act Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.
Page 109 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or his heirs as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever: Provided, That the President of the United States may in any case in his discretion extend the period.
Page 109 - States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the state or territory where such land is located...
Page 166 - ... be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other government services, and also, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such government transportation...
Page 60 - June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and which may make possible and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the reclamation of all or any portion of the irrigable lands on the Yuma and Colorado River Indian reservations in California and Arizona, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to divert the waters of the Colorado River and to reclaim, utilize, and dispose of any lands in said reservations which may be irrigable by such works in like manner as though...
Page 99 - Interior shall cause the said lands to be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than the appraised value thereof, first having given at least sixty days...
Page 107 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department...
Page 100 - The remainder of the lands irrigable in said reservations shall be disposed of to settlers under the provisions of the reclamation act: Provided further, That there shall be added to the charges required to be paid under said act by settlers upon the unallotted Indian lands such sum per acre as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, shall fairly represent the value of the unallotted lands in said...
Page 83 - ... be reoffered for sale at any subsequent time in the same manner, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; and if not sold at...