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[CITE: 25USC574]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
      SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 574. Consolidation of lands

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to 
establish land-use districts within the diminished and ceded portions of 
the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, and, under such rules and 
regulations as he may prescribe, to effect the consolidation of Indian 
and privately owned lands within said districts through exchange, 
relinquishment, donation, assignment, or purchase of lands or interests 
therein, including water rights or surface rights to lands, improvements 
thereon and improvements on undisposed-of ceded lands, to the end that 
the respective Indian and non-Indian land holdings may be consolidated 
for more beneficial use. Exchanges of lands hereunder shall be made on 
the basis of equal value, and the value of improvements on lands to be 
relinquished to the Indians or by Indians, to non-Indians shall be given 
due consideration, and allowance made therefor in the valuation of lieu 
lands. This section shall apply to tribal land, and trust or otherwise 
restricted Indian allotments, whether the allottees be living or 
deceased. In all transactions involving tribal Indian land, the consent 
of the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes shall first be obtained. Title to all 
lands or interests therein acquired by the Government through exchange 
of tribal land shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust 
for the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes of Indians of the Wind River 
Reservation, Wyoming. Title to lands exchanged for individual Indian 
allotments, or purchased for individual Indians with restricted funds 
shall be taken by the United States in trust for the individual Indian 
allottee or heir. The right herein granted individual Indians to acquire 
lands by purchase with restricted funds or by exchange shall not extend 
to lands on the ceded or opened portion of the reservation.

(July 27, 1939, ch. 387, Sec. 4, 53 Stat. 1129.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 571, 573, 575, 577 of this 
title.
