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PUBLIC LAW 92-206-DEC. 18, 1971

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Public Law 92-206 AN ACT To provide for the apportionment of funds in payment of a judgment in favor of the Shoshone Tribe in consolidated docliets numbered 326-D, 326-E, 326-F, 326-G, 326-H, 306, and 367 before the Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes.

December 18, 1971 [S.2042]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Indians. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds on Shoshone t r i b e s. deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Sho- Judgment funds, shone Xation or Tribe of Indians and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes apportionment. that were appropriated by the Act of June 19, 1968 (82 Stat. 239), to pay a judgment in the sum of $15,700,000 entered by the Indian Claims (Commission in consolidated dockets numbered 326-D, 326-E, 326-F, 3 2 6 - ( T, 3 2 6 - H, 366, and 367. and the interest thereon, after deducting attorneys' fees, litigation expenses, and other appropriate deductions, shall be apportioned by the Secretary of the Interior to the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind Kiver Reservation, Wyoming, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, and the Northwest Band of Shoshone Indians (hereinafter the "three groups"), as set forth in this Act. SEC. 2. The sum of $500,000, and the interest thereon, less attorneys' fees and other appropriate deductions all in the proportion that the $500,000 bears to the $15,700,000. shall be credited to the ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation for claims of the tribes enumerated in dockets numbered 326-D, 326-E, 326-F, 3 2 6 - C J, and 366. SEC. 3. The sum of $1,375,000 plus the earned interest thereon less $181,732 shall be credited to the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians for claims of the bands enumerated in dockets numbered 326-H and 367. SEC. 4. The remainder of the award shall be apportioned between the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in accordance with an agreement entered into between the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in May 1965, approved by the Associate Commissioner of Indian Airairs in December 1965. SEC. 5. For the purpose of apportioning the award in accordance Membership r o l l s. with this Act, membership rolls, duly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be prepared for each of the three groups, as follows: (a) The governing body of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation and the governing body of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, each shall, with the assistance of the Secretary, bring current the membership rolls of their respective tribes, to include all persons born l)rior to and alive on the date of this Act, who are enrolled or eligible to be enrolled in accordance with the membership requirements of their respective tribes. (b) The proposed roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians entitled to participate in the distribution of the judgment funds shall be prepared by the governing officers of said Northwestern l^ands, with the assistance of the Secretary of the Interior, within six months after the date of the enactment of this Act authorizing distribution of said funds. The roll shall include all persons who meet all of the following requirements of eligibility: (1) They were born prior to and alive on the date of the enactment of this Act; (2) Either their names appear on one of the following Indian census rolls of the Washakie Sub-Agency of the Fort Hall jurisdiction:

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