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Description and Holding Information
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Background Report on Public Law 280, 1975
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Committee Print. Background Report of Public Law 280. Prepared at the request of Henry M. Jackson, Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate. Published by U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington 1975). 61 p. Contents of this publication include a memorandum by Chairman Jackson; a table of contents; and sections on state jurisdiction prior to the adoption of Public Law 280, the policy context of the law, the legislative history of the law, amendment of the law, litigation concerning the law; and appendices, including the text of Public Law 280 (1953) and the 1968 Amendments to the law. (From the Chairman’s memorandum: (“The express purpose of this public law was to grant broad discretionary authority to the States to assume civil and criminal jurisdiction over Indian reservations within their borders.”)
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Title:
Background report on Public law 280 : prepared at the request of Henry M. Jackson, chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate.
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OCLC Number:
501186716
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Available Volumes
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Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
Volume 1 | | Yes | No |
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