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Publication in Federal Register.

Publication in Federal R e g i s t e r.

Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians.

ShoshoneBannock T r i b e s of Fort Hall Reservation.

PUBLIC lAW 92-206-DEC. 18, 1971

[85 STAT.

(a) Roll dated January 1, 1937, by F. A. Gross, Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation. (b) Roll dated January 1, 1940, by F. A. (^ross. Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation. (c) Roll dated March 10, 1954. (d) Roll dated April 21, 1964. or they possess one-quarter Shoshone Indian blood and they are descendants of those appearing on at least one of said rolls; (8) They are not recognized as members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, the Shoshone Tribe of the AVind River Reservation, or any other Indian Tribe; and (4) They shall elect not to participate in any settlement of claims pending before the Indian Claims Commission in docket 3*2-J, Shoshone-Ooshute, and docket 326-K, Western Shoshone. The proposed roll shall be published in the Federal Register, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the State of Utah. Any person claiming membership rights in the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians, or any interest in said judgment funds, or a representative of the Secretary on behalf of any such person, within sixty days from the date of publication in the Federal Register, or in the newspaper of general circulation, as hereinbefore provided, whichever publication date is last, may file an appeal with the Secretary contesting the inclusion or omission of the name of any person on or from such proposed roll. The Secretary shall review such appeals, and his decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. After disposition of all such appeals to the Secretary, the roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians shall be published in the Federal Register and such roll shall be final. SEC. 6. The funds apportioned to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians, less attorneys' fees, and expenses due the attorneys representing the Northwestern Band under an approved contract, effective March 1, 1968, shall be placed to its credit in the United States Treasury and shall be distributed equally to the members whose names appear on the final roll and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, (a) The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the number of persons listed on the proposed roll published as hereinbefore provided and the number of persons on whose behalf an appeal has been taken to the Secretary contesting omission from such proposed roll. The share of those persons excluded from the final roll by reason of the decision of the Secretary on appeal shall be distributed equally to the persons included on the final roll. (b) The Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a living enrollee directly to such enrollee. The per capita share of a deceased enrollee shall be paid to his heirs or legatees upon proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary, whose findings upon such proof shall be final and conclusive. A share or interest therein payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees w'ho are less than twenty-one years of age or who are under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary determines appropriate to protect the best interest of such persons. SEC. 7. (a) The funds apportioned to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation shall be placed to their credit in the United States Treasury. Seventy-five percent of such funds shall be distributed per capita to all persons born on or before and living on the date of this Act who are duly enrolled on the roll prepared in accordance with section 5(a) of this Act.

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