Notes on 16 U.S.C. § 151 : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on 16 U.S.C. § 151 : US Code - Notes

(July 1, 1902, ch. 1362, Sec. 64, 32 Stat. 655; June 16, 1906, ch.
3335, Secs. 13, 14, 34 Stat. 275; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat.
837; Proc. Nov. 16, 1907, 35 Stat. 2160; June 25, 1948, ch. 646,
Sec. 39, 62 Stat. 992; Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90
Stat. 236.)
CODIFICATION
Section is from section 64 of act July 1, 1902, which was part of
an agreement between the United States and the Choctaw and Chicasaw
tribes of Indians, ratified by and included in that Act.
The following provisions contained in this section as originally
enacted were omitted as temporary and executed:
A provision that the selection of lands by the Secretary of the
Interior should be within four months after the ratification of the
agreement aforesaid; a provision, following the words of the
present section reading "the two tribal governments" for the
disposition of such other lands as might be embraced in a town site
at that point; a provision that the deposit in the Treasury to the
credit of the two tribes should be within ninety days after the
selection of the land; and a provision for the appraisal of and
reimbursement for all improvements lawfully upon the lands
selected.
A provision of the original text that the land should remain
within the jurisdiction of the United States court for the southern
district of the Indian Territory was changed to read as set out
herein by virtue of sections 13 and 14 of the Oklahoma Enabling Act
of June 16, 1906, and the Executive Proclamation of Nov. 16, 1907,
declaring the admission of Oklahoma to the Union.
AMENDMENTS
1948 - Act June 25, 1948, struck out sentence placing lands
within jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States for
the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
CHANGE OF NAME
Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known
as Platt National Park made an integral part of Chickasaw National
Recreation Area by Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5. See section 460hh-4 of
this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1948 AMENDMENT
Section 38 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made
by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
REPEALS
Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34
Stat. 837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the
Sulphur Springs Indian Reservation had been renamed Platt National
Park, in honor of Orville Hitchcock Platt, former Senator from
Connecticut "and for many years a member of the Committee on Indian
Affairs, in recognition of his distinguished services to the
Indians and to the country."