I want to know about...

umiM
SCRIPTA 1

FEDERAL
VO LUM E 3

REGISTER
1934
Wanted

NUM BER 2

,
Washington Tuesday, January 4, 1938
PRESIDENT OF THE U N IT E D STATES.
R e l a t in g t o N e w l y - M i n e d D o m e s t ic S il v e r
By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, by Proclamation of the twenty-first day of December, 1933, as modified by Proclamations of the ninth day of August, 1934, and the tenth and twenty-fourth days of April, 1935, the United States coinage mints are directed to receive for coinage and addition to the monetary stocks of the United States silver mined subsequent to December 21, 1933, from natural deposits in the United States or any .place subject to the jurisdiction thereof; and WHEREAS, such Proclamation as so modified states in part that:
This proclamation shall remain in force and effect until the thirty-first day of December, 1937, unless repealed or modified by Act of Congress or by subsequent proclamation.
and that Notice is hereby given that I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this proc lamation as the interest of the United States may seem to require.

less such deduction of 50%, and that the said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of December, 1933, as heretofore and hereby modified shall remain in force and effect until the 31st day of December, 1938 unless repealed or further modi fied by Act of Congress or by subsequent Proclamation.
Notice is hereby given that I reserve the right by virtue of the authority vested in me to revoke or modify this Proc lamation as the interests of the United States may seem to require.
IN W IT N E S S W HEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 30th day December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty seal seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second.
F r a n k l in D R o o se v e lt
By the President:
C ordell H u l l
Secretary of State.
No. 2268
F. R. Doc. 38-14; Filed, December 31,1937; 6:07 p. m.J

NOW , THEREFORE, finding that the interests of the United Statesrequire further modification of said Proclama DEPARTM ENT OF THE INTERIOR.
tio n ! the twenty-first day of December, 1933, as so modi fied; by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Office of Indian Affairs.
Congress cited in said Proclamation, and other legislation designated for national recovery, and by virtue of all other F la t h e a d I n d i a n R e s e r v a t io n , M o n t a n a authority in me vested;
order o p r e s t o r a t io n I, F R A N K LIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby further modify the said Procla D e c e m b e r 11, 1937.
mation of the twenty-first day o f December, 1933, so that Whereas pursuant to authority contained in the Act of the same shall remain in force and effect until the 31st Congress approved June 21, 1906 34 Stat. L., 354, certain day of December, 1938, and so that the amount of deduction townsites and villa sites were established within the Flatfor seigniorage, brassage, coinage and other mint charges head Indian Reservation, Montana, and from the monetary value of silver delivered thereunder Whereas there are a number of undisposed of lots within which has been mined on or after January 1,-1938, shall be the townsites and villa sites referred to which are desired 50% of such monetary value; and I do proclaim and direct by the Indians and for which there appears to be no public that with respect to all silver received by a United States demand, and coinage mint under the provisions of the said Proclamation of the twenty-first day of December, 1933, which such mint, Whereas the Tribal Council, the Superintendent of the Flathead Agency, and th Commissioner of Indian Affairs, subjejr to regulations prescribed hereunder by the Secretary of the Treasury, is satisfied has been mined on or after have recommended restoration of the lands involved to tribal ownership.
January 1, 1933, from natural deposits in the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the deduc Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in the tion for seigniorage and services performed by the Govern Secretary of the Interior by Sections 3 and 7 of the Act of ment shall be 50% and there shall be returned therefor, June 118, 1934 48 Stat. L., 984, I hereby find that restora in standard silver dollars, silver certificates, or any other tion to tribal ownership of the lands included in the towncoin or currency of the United States, the monetary value site and villa-site lots listed below will be in the public of the silver so received that is, $1.2929+ per fine ounce, interest and the said lands are hereby restored to tribal 5