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1 Constitution and Bylaws of the Cortina Indian Rancheria, Colusa County, California 1 (1996)

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CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS


                          CORTINA INDIA RANCHERIA

                              Colusa County, California


                                    1PREAMBL~

       We, the people of the Cortina Indian Rancheria in Colusa County, California, in order
to establish a formal organization and promote our common welfare, do hereby adopt this
Constitution and Bylaws, which shall supersede the Constitution and Bylaws of the Cortina Indian
Rancheria approved by the Secretary of the Interior on August 10, 1973.


                                ARTICLE I. NAME

       The name of this organization shall be the Cortina Indian Rancheria.


                             ARTICLE    1. TE      QRY

       The jurisdiction of the Cortina Indian Rancheria shall extend to all lands now or hereafter
comprising the Cortina Indian Rancheria. At present, the Cortina Indian Rancheria consists of
640 acres.


                           ARTICLE III. M    EMBERSHI

       Sin .        Membership in the Cortina Indian Rancheria shall consist of persons in the
following categories:

             a.     Living persons whose names appear on the Schedule showing heads of
       families and numbers of the Cortina Band of Indians, Colusa County, California, June 4,
       1907.

             b.     Persons who were born before August 10, 1973, who are lineal
      descendants of those individuals named on the schedule described above.

             c.     Persons born after August 10, 1973 , who are one-fourth (1/4) or more
      degree of California Indian blood who are lineal descendants of individuals listed in (a)
      or (b) above.

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