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PUBLIC LAW 85-523-JULY 15, 1958
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Public Law 85-523 JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for transfer of right-of-way for Yellowtail Dam and Reservoir, Hardin unit, Missouri River Basin project and payment to Crow Indian Tribe in connection therewith, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from funds appropriated to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, for the Missouri River Basin project, there shall be transferred in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians, Montana, the sum of $2,500,000. Said sum is intended to include both just compensation for the transfer to the United States as herein provided of all right, title, and interest of the Crow Tribe in and to the tribal lands described in section 2 of this resolution, except such as is reserved or excluded in said section 2, and a share of the special value to the United States of said lands for utilization in connection with its authorized Missouri River Basin project, in addition to other justifiable considerations. Nothing contained in this joint resolution shall be taken as an admission by the United States that it is under any legal obligation to pay more than just compensation to said Crow Tribe and, m any suit brought as provided m section 3 of this resolution, no amount in excess of the sum above stated shall be awarded unless the court finds that the whole of said sum is less than just compensation for all of the tribal right, title, and interest taken. No attorney fees shall be allowed out of the amount paid under authority of this section. Neither the initial transfer of such funds to the Tribe, as provided herein, nor any subsequent per capita distribution thereof shall be subject to Federal income tax. SEC. 2. (a) Subject to the provisions of this section, there is hereby transferred to the United States the right, title, and interest of the Crow Tribe in and to lands situated in the Big Horn County, Montana, hereinafter described under the headings "PARCEL A" and uPARCEL
B. PARCEL A
Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the east half of the southeast quarter of section 18; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 19, all in township 6 south, range 31 east, Montana principal meridian, and containing 573.84 acres, more or less. A tract of unsurveyed, unallotted Indian land described as follows: Beginning on the westerly side of the Big Horn River at a point on the west line of lot 9, section 18, towmship 6 south, ran^e 31 east, Montana principal meridian, said point being at elevation 3,675; thence running upstream along a contour line whose elevation is 3,675, to a point of intersection with the east line of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 22, township 6 south, range 30 east, Montana principal meridian; thence southerly along the east line of said southeast quarter of the northeast quarter to a point on the east line of said southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, whose elevation is 3,675; thence running upstream along a contour line whose elevation is 3,675, to a point of intersection with the south boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation on the westerly side of the Big Horn River; thence easterly along the said south boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation to a point of intersection with the middle of the thread of the Big Horn River; thence running upstream along
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Yellowtail D a m and Reservoir. R i g h t - of - w a y payment.
Tax exenq>tion.
Crow Tribe. Land transfer.
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