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PUBLIC LAW 85-868-SEPT. 2, 196S
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SALT LAKE MERIDIAN
Township 38 south, range 23 east: Sections 26, 33, 34, and 35. Township 38 south, range 24 east: Section 28; section 29, east half; sections 31, 33, 34, and 35. Township 39 south, range 22 east: Sections 13, 24, 26, and 35, those portions lying east of Recapture Creek. Township 39 south, range 23 east: Sections 1, 3, 4, and 5; sections 8 to 15, inclusive; section 17; sections 18 and 19, those portions lying east of Recapture Creek; sections 20 to 31, inclusive; sections 33, 34, and 35. Township 39 south, range 24 east: Section 1; sections 3 to 15, inclusive; sections 17 to 24, inclusive; sections 26 and 27, those portions lying north and west of the present Navajo Indian Reservation; sections 28, 29, 30, 31, and 33; section 34, that portion lying north and west of the present Navajo Indian Reservation. Township 39 south, range 25 east: Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 18. Township 40 south, range 22 east: Section 1; sections 11, 12, 13, 23, 24, 25, and 26, those portions lying east of Recapture Creek and north of the present Nava]o Indian Reservation. Township 40 south, range 23 east: Section 1; sections 3 to 15, inclusive; sections 17 to 23, inclusive; section 26; sections 24, 25, 27, 28,29, 30, 34, and 35, those portions lying north and west of the present Navajo Indian Reservation. Township 40 south, range 24 east: Sections 3, 4, 5, those portions lying north and west of the present Navajo Indian Reservation; section 6; sections 7, 8, 18, and 19, those portions lying north and west of the present Navajo Indian Reservation. (d) The transfer hereinabove provided for shall also be deemed to constitute full and complete satisfaction of any and all rights which are based solely upon Indian use and occupancy or possession claimed by or on behalf of any individual members of the Navajo Tribe in their individual capacities or any groups or identifiable bands thereof to any and all public lands in San Juan County, Utah, outside the exterior boundaries of the Navajo Indian Reservation as the same are described in: (1) The Act of March 1, 1933 (ch. 160, 47 Stat. 1418); (2) Executive Order 324A of May 15, 1905; (3) Executive order of May 17, 1884; and all such rights to such lands are hereby extinguished from and after January 1, 1963. Subject to the provision of section 2 of this Act, and suDJect 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. The term "public lands" as used herein shall be deemed to include, but in no way to be limited to lands and the mineral deposits which originally may have been excluded from said reservation by reason of settlement or occupancy or other valid rights then existing, but since relinquished, extinguished, or otherwise terminated. The tribe is hereby authorized to adopt such rules and regulations as it deems appropriate, with the approval of the Secretary, for residence and use oi the lands transferred pursuant to this section: Provided, That the tribal council shall give preference until January 1, 1963, in granting residence and use rights to: (1) those Navajos who, prior to the effective date of this Act, have used or occupied the transferred lands and (2) those Navajos who, prior to the effective date of this Act, have used or occupied other public lands in San Juan County, Utah.
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