Letter to Senator John Melcher from Cecil Andrus (Secretary of the Interior), providing clarifications and amendments to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829, as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (09/22/1980)

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Letter to Senator John Melcher from Cecil Andrus (Secretary of the Interior), providing clarifications and amendments to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829, as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (09/22/1980)

Subject

Indians of North America--Maine--Land tenure
Indians of North America--Maine--Claims
Indians of North America--Legal Status, Laws, etc.
Indians of North America--Government Relations
Indians of North America--Politics and Government

Description

Concerning Section 6(h) (which we now know as 25 U.S.C. 1725(h)), the Department of Interior "[has] no objection to a proposed amendment . . . which would insert after 'civil, criminal, or regulatory jurisdiction of the State of Maine,' the following: 'including, without limitation, laws of the State relating to land use or environmental matters,'."

Source

NARA

Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, Bill Files- Second Session, S. 2623- S.3222, Box. 12, Folder “S.2829”; 96th Congress; Records of the U.S. Senate, RG 46; National Archives, Washington, DC.

Date

9/22/1980

Rights

Public Domain

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Text
Documents

Identifier

NARA015

Files

NARA015.pdf

Citation

“Letter to Senator John Melcher from Cecil Andrus (Secretary of the Interior), providing clarifications and amendments to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Bill S. 2829, as reported by the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (09/22/1980),” The Drafting and Enactment of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act: April - October 1980, accessed April 18, 2024, https://maineindianclaims.omeka.net/items/show/19.

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