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 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 539, 540 . JUNE 15, 1934 . 965 the previous fiscal year. The expenditures proposed for the pur- snt ie eoes ewp os ed poses specified herein s hall be s ubmitted to the tr ibal coun cil, or i ts by tribal council. autho rized busine ss com mittee, for its adv ance r eview and ap proval ." Approved, June 15, 1934 . [CHAPTER 540.1 AN ACT June 15, 1934 . To provide for the enrollment of members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of the 	[H .R .8541.] State of Wisconsin . [Public, No . 358.1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of M~ IIee Indians of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a certi- Certified roll of mem- fied roll of the members of the Menominee Indian Tribe in the bets to be prepared . State of Wisconsin, and from time to time to add names to such roll in accor dance with t he pro vision s of th is Act , whic h roll shall constitute the official roll of members of said tribe for all purposes . The names of all persons on the tribal rolls on the date of the enact- b r us ed ese nt asi llmentto ment of this Act shall automatically be placed on the roll authorized to be prepared under the provisions of this Act and shall be used as a basis for the compilation and preparation of said roll by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall, from Additional qualified time to time, place on said roll the names of such additional persons p ersons. as are entitled to the privilege of enrollment under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2 . Any person whose name is not on th e roll of the Menon iinee ro Imput atio n fo r en- Indian Tribe on the date of the enactment of this Act may at any time hereafter apply to the Secretary of the Interior to have his name placed thereon. Such application shall be in writing, shall contain such information as the Secretary of the Interior may require, and shall be subsc ribed and sworn to before a n officia l author- ized to administer oaths ; except that in the case of minors under the age of eighteen years and in the case of persons who are mentally incompetent, such application may be exe cuted by any member of the Menominee Tribe of Indians in behalf of such minor or mentally incompetent person. SEC. 3 . At the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Inte- applicants ' Certification of list of rior shall compile a list of all persons who have applied for enroll- ment as a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe during the past fiscal ye ar, and h e shall c ertify su ch list o f applica nts to th e general council of the Menominee Indian Tribe requesting said general coun- cil to investigate the qualifications of such applicants and to report its findings to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall take no action on any application for enrollment until after the expiration of one year from the date the certified list of applicants was forwarded to the general council of the Menominee Indian Tribe, unless the said general council of the Men- ominee Indian Tribe shall have previously filed its findings and recom menda tions wit h ref erenc e th ereto with the Secr etary of t he Interior. SEC. 4. No person whose name does not appear on the tribal roll mEltigibility to enroll- of the Menominee Indian Tribe on the date of the enactment of this Act sha ll her eafter be el igible to en rollmen t unle ss he posses ses at least one fourth of Menominee Indian blood, and any person possess- ing one fourth or more of Menominee Indian blood who has been or may be born of parents residing, at the time of such birth, upon the Menominee Reservation, at least one of whom is an enrolled member of the Menominee Tribe, or who has been or may be adopted Adopted m ember. b y the Menominee Tribe, shall be entitled to have his name placed