Provides for the designation of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon as the beneficiary of a specified public domain allotment.
Provides that all interests in public domain allotments in Harney County, Oregon, held by Indian allottees who die intestate and without heirs, shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon and added to the Burns Paiute Indian Reservation.
Amends the Act of November 24, 1942 to increase from $2,000 to $50,000 the upper threshold value of certain land interests of intestate Indians without heirs which will escheat to the United States as trustee. (Estates valued below the threshold are held for needy Indians designated by the Secretary of the Interior; those above the threshold are held for whichever Indians Congress chooses to designate.)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Andrews without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Andrews without amendment. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 20.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Called up by House by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House by Voice Vote.
Enacted as Public Law 98-25
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Passed House by Voice Vote.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 98-25.
Became Public Law No: 98-25.