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PUBLIC LAW 202-AUG. 1, 1955

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erly along the southern and southeastern edge of the delta of the Sa^avanirktok River to a point on the east bank of the river at approximate latitude 69 degrees 57 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 39 minutes west; thence in a meandering line in a generally southerly direction along the eastern main bank of the flood plain of the Sagavanirktok River to the junction with the Ivishak River, approximate latitude 69 degrees 32 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 29 minutes west; thence due west approximately 2 miles to the divide between the waters of the Sagavanirktok and the Tooliok Rivers approximate latitude 69 degrees 32 minutes north, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes west; thence in a generally southwesterly direction following the height of land dividing the waters of the Tooliok, Kuparuk, and Itkillik Rivers from those of the Sagavanirktok River to a point on the Brooks Range Divide between the headwaters of the Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon River on the south at approximate latitude 68 degrees 9 minutes north, longitude 149 degrees 51 minutes west; thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, Kotzebue Sound, and the east end of Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixtyfirst meridian of west longitude, thence along said meridian to latitude 61 degrees 30 minutes; thence southwesterly to latitude 61 degrees, longitude 165 degrees 30 minutes; thence south along the meridian of 165 degrees 30 minutes to latitude 58 degrees; thence west to the international boundary." Approved August 1, 1955. Public Law 202

CHAPTER 444

AN ACT To provide for the distribution of funds belonging to the members of the Creek Nation of Indians, and for other purposes.

August 1, 1955 [H. R. 4367]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhied, That the provisions ^fJTt'Vi'bution of of section 1 of the Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1934 creek Nation funds. (48 Stat. 1021, 1033), under the heading "Bureau of Indian Affairs" directing the Secretary of the Interior to make a per capita payment to the members of the Creek Tribe of Indians on the basis of a roll to be made as of December 4, 1933, are repealed. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to use any funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Creek Nation to complete allotment equalization payments to persons with claims thereto that were filed and adjudicated in accordance with the provisions of section 18 in the Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. 3, 24). (b) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to distribute per capita to the members of the Creek Nation whose names appear on the final rolls approved under the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137), 25 USC 355 note. or to their heirs or legatees, any funds heretofore or hereafter deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Creek Nation that are not used for the purposes of subsection (a) of this section and that are not needed, in the judgment of the Secretary, for other tribal purposes except the proceeds of any final judgment entered in Docket No. 21, pending before the Indian Claims Commission, in which the Creek Nation (Oklahoma) is plaintiff, and McGhee et al., on behalf of the Creek Nation East of the Mississippi are intervenors, and the United States is defendant.

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