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Briefing Memo to the members of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs from Peter Taylor (Special Counsel) and Timothy Woodcock (Minority Counsel) regarding the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill, S. 2829 (selected pages) (09/15/1980)
The pages included here contain some of the history behind Bill S. 2829, as well as information regarding the purpose and meaning of various sections of the bill, including sections 4 and 6 (what ultimately became 25 U.S.C. 1723 and 1725).
Documentary supplement to the remarks that Maine Attorney General Richard Cohen gave at the House of Representatives hearing regarding the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill H.R. 7919 (only table of contents included here) (08/25/1980)
Vol. I (Exhibit A) of supplementary documents includes federal correspondence regarding jurisdiction over Eastern Seaboard Indian groups, 1792-1937. Vol. 2 (Exhibit B) of supplementary documents includes federal correspondence regarding jurisdiction…
Draft of H.R. 7919 (Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill, House of Representatives) (09/19/1980)
House of Representatives draft of the bill. Section 4 corresponds to what we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1723. Section 6(h) corresponds to what we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1725(h). This version of the bill does contain a Section 16 (the section that we now…
H.R. 7919 (Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill, House of Representatives) (08/01/1980)
House of Representatives draft of the bill. Section 4 corresponds to what we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1723. Section 6(g) corresponds to what we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1725(h). This version of the bill does not yet contain the section that we now know…
Letter from Cecil Andrus (Secretary of the Interior) to Senator John Melcher, responding (at the request of Senator George J. Mitchell) to questions posed by the Bangor Daily News regarding the Maine Indian Claims Settlement legislation (08/19/1980)
Discusses a question regarding the jurisdictional arrangement between the State of Maine and the Tribes.
Letter from Maine Attorney General Richard Cohen to Reid Peyton Chambers (Attorney for Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians), discussing the provision that later became Section 1725(e) of the Indian Claims Settlement Act (04/29/1980)
Discusses proposed language for Section 6(h) (now 1725(e)) and other settlement terms affecting the Maliseets.
Letter to Peter Taylor (Special Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs) and Timothy Woodcock (Senate Minority Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs) from John Paterson (Maine Deputy Attorney General), suggesting edits to the mark-up draft of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829. (09/02/1980)
Suggests one edit to the language of Section 6(h) (what ultimately became 25 U.S.C. 1725(h)).
Letter to Representative Morris K. Udall from Department of Interior, Supplementing the Department's Previous Report on H.R. 7919 as well as the Department's Previously Submitted Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (09/10/1980)
Supplement to Department of Interior report made on 8/25/1980, which included an Amendment to H.R. 7919 in the Nature of a Substitute. This letter suggests adding that the Maine Implementing Act (MIA) is confirmed ". . . to the extent that it is not…