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Calendar No. 1531
75TH CONGRESS SENATE REPORT
3d Session No. 1467
AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO INDIANS OF DELINQUENT
AMOUNTS ON HOMESTEAD ENTRIES
JANUARY 5 (calendar day, MARCH 8), 1938.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. WHEELER, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted
the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 5753]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 5753) to authorize payment of the amounts due on delinquent
homestead entries on certain Indian reservations, having had the
same under consideration, report thereon with the recommendation
that it do pass without amendment.
This bill has been considered by the Committee on Indian Affairs,
House of Representatives; on August 10, 1937, that committee sub-
mitted its report (H. Rept. No. 1491, 75th Cong. 1st. sess.) to the
House, recommending its passage and on August 16, 1937, it passed
the House.
The reasons for the enactment of this proposed legislation are fully
set forth in said House Report No. 1491, copy of which is appended
hereto and made a part of this report as follows:
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5753)
to authorize payment of the amounts due on delinquent homestead entries on
certain Indian reservations, having considered the same, report thereon with a
recommendation that it do pass with the following amendments:
On page 1, line 6, after the word be insert the word due.
On page 1, line 6, after the word entries insert the words of purchases.
On page 1, line 7, strike out Fort Totten and insert in lieu thereof Coeur
d'Alene.
On page 3, after the enacting clause add a new section as follows:
SEC. 3. Any homestead entryman or purchaser of ceded Indian land, who is
delinquent in the payment of the purchase money or interest, or both, due on
the land embraced in his entry, entries, purchase, or purchases, and who is unable
to make payment thereof in accordance with existing laws, shall be accorded the
privilege of relinquishing any subdivision, or subdivisions, as shown on the ap-
proved plat, of his entry, entries, purchase, or purchases, so that the purchase
money paid on the whole of such entry, entries, purchase, or purchases, will be
sufficient to complete payment on the lands retained, which retained lands shall
be in reasonably compact form. Relinquishments heretofore made may be
accepted under the provisions of this section.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.amindian/npia0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)