Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 68 Part 1.djvu/1012

 PUBLIC LAW 716-AUG. 30, 1954

980

[68 S T.

(c) No part of any payment hereunder shall be subject to any debt or debts created prior to the date of this Act by a beneficiary of Indian blood. Payment to living enrollees, unless under twenty-one years of age, or under legal disability, shall be completed within one year after approval of the tribal rolls. Payment to next of kin and legatees, and payment for the account of persons under twenty-one years of age or under legal disability shall be completed within the same period of time to the maximum extent possible. SEC. 4. All costs incurred by the Secretary in the preparation of such rolls and the payment of such per capita shares shall be paid by appropriate withdrawals out of the fund or funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States arising out of such judgments. SEC. 5. The Secretary is authorized to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Approved August 30, 1954.

Public Law 716 August 30, 1954 [H. R. 7290]

K1 a m ath Indian Reservation.

School construction.

Conditions.

1086

AN ACT To authorize an appropriation foi- the construction of certain public-school facilities on the Klamath Indian Reservation at Chiloquin, Oregon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Ignited States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $206,880 to be used by the Secretary of Interior for assisting the Klamath County School District in constructing and equipping new public-school facilities, which shall include an elementary school site, school building, and necessary equipment, on the Klamath Indian Reservation at Chiloquin, Klamath County, Oregon. SEC. 2. The expenditure of any money appropriated pursuant to the first section of this Act shall be subject to the express conditions that (1) 40 per centum of the cost of such facilities shall be paid by the Klamath County School District; (2) such facilities shall be available to all Indian children of the district on the same terms, except as to payment from Federal funds of tuition of Indian children under Federal supervision, as other children of the district; (3) the cost of preparing the plans and specifications for such facilities, to be furnished by the local or State authorities, shall be paid out of the appropriation authorized in this Act in the same proportion as the building costs; (4) upon the approval of such plans and specifications by the Secretary of the Interior, the actual work shall proceed under the supervision of such local authority; and (5) payment for the work completed shall be made monthly on vouchers properly certified by the local officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Approved August 30, 1954. Public Law 717

August 30, 1954 [H. R. 8020]

CHAPTER

CHAPTER 1087

AN ACT Authorizing the transfer of certain property of the United States Government (in Klamath County, Oregon) to the State of Oregon.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ^K^atnath County, jj,j^it^ct States of America in Congress assembled, That the General Land transfer. Services Administration be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to

�