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68Tm CONGRESS I HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session )
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DISPOSITION OF BONUSES, RENTALS, AND
FROM UNALLOTTED INDIAN LANDS
JANUARY 19, 1925.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HAYDEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted
the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 876]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred S. 876,
to provide for the disposition of bonuses, rentals, and royalties
received under the provisions of the act of Congress entitled An
act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas,
and sodium on the public domain, approved February 25, 1920,
from unallotted lands in Executive oer Indian reservations, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with the recommendatipn that the bill do pass with the
following amendment:
Page 2, after line 8, add the following:
That the provisions of said act, approved February 25, 1920, shall apply to
unallotted lands within Indian reservations except that such lands may only be
leased and patents shall not be issued for the same.
That the production of minerals on said lands may be taxed by the State
wherein the same are produced in all respects the same as minerals produced
on privately owned lands, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized
and directed to cause to be paid from out of the tribal funds in the Treasury
the tax so assessed: Provided, That such tax shall not become a lien or charge
of any kind or character against the land or other property of such Indians.
SEc. 2. That there is hereby authorized an appropriation of $15,000 from
the money on deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the Navajo Tribe of Indians
derived from bonuses on oil and gas leases and from oil and gas royalties for
expenditure, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for necessary
expenses in connection with the supervision of the development and operation
of the oil and gas industry on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and
New Mexico.
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