[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3615 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3615

  To direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study of the 
   feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the route 
followed by Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory and Joel 
 Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory, in 
     1855 when they negotiated treaties with the Indian tribes of 
  northeastern Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2005

   Mr. Wu (for himself, Ms. Hooley, Mr. DeFazio, and Mr. Blumenauer) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study of the 
   feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the route 
followed by Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory and Joel 
 Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory, in 
     1855 when they negotiated treaties with the Indian tribes of 
  northeastern Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Northwest Indian Legacy Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF 1855 TREATY TRAIL FOR NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEM ACT 
              STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(43) 1855 Treaty Trail, which traces the route followed by 
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory and Joel Palmer, 
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory, in 1855 when 
they negotiated treaties with the Indian tribes of northeastern Oregon, 
Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana.''.
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