727 ACQUISITION OF INDIAN LANDS FOR PARKER DAM POWER PROJECT An act for the acquisition of Indian lands required in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines and other works, Parker Dam power project, Arizona-California. (Act of October 28, 1942, ch. 630, 56 Stat. 1011.) [Sec. 1. Granting rights for transmission lines—Relocation of properties.]— In aid of the construction of the Parker Dam power project, there is hereby granted to the United States, subject to the provisions of this Act, such right, title, and interest of the Indians as may be required in and to such tribal and allotted lands as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior from time to time for the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines and other works of the project or for the relocation or reconstruction of properties made necessary by the construction of the project. (56 Stat. 1011) Sec. 2. [Secretary to determine moneys to be paid.]-As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. The amounts due the tribe and the individual allottees or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available for the Parker Dam power project to the superintendent of the appropriate Indian agency, or such other officer as may be designated by the Secretry of the Interior, for credit on the books of such agency to the accounts of the tribe and the individuals concerned. (56 Stat. 1011) Sec. 3. [Funds may be used for acquisition of other land-Lands to have: same status and be nontaxable.]-Funds deposited to the credit of allottees, their heirs, or devisees, may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the acquisition of other lands and improvements, or the relocation of existing improvements or construction of new improvements on the lands so acquired for the allottees or heirs whose lands and improvements are acquired under the provisions of this Act. Lands so acquired shall be held in the same status as those from which the funds were derived, and shall be nontaxable until otherwise provided by Congress. (56 Stat. 1011) Sec. 4. [Authority of the Secretary.]-The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to prescribe such regulations as he may deem appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act. (56 Stat. 1011) EXPLANATORY NOTES Not Codified. This act is not codified in the U.S. Code. Cross Reference, Acquisition of Indian Lands for Parker Dam. The Act of July 8, 1940, 54 Stat. 744, authorized the acquisition of tribal and allotted lands of the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation in Ari zona and the Chemehuevi Reservation in California in aid of the construction of the Parker Dam project. The 1940 Act appears herein in chronological order. Legislative History. S. 2369, Public Law 764 in the 77th Congress. S. Rept. No. 1354.. H.R. Rept. No. 2532 (on H.R. 6813). |