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PUBLIC LAW 92-253-MAR. 17, 1972

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Public Law 92-253 March 17, 1972 [S. 602]

Indians. Confederated Salish and Kootenai T r i b e s, Mont. Judgment funds.

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AN ACT To provide for the disposition of judgments, when appropriated, recovered by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, in paragraphs 7 and 10, docket numbered 50233, United States Court of Claims, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Thiit the funds appropriated to the credit of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, in satisfaction of judgments awarded in paragraphs 7 and 10 in docket numbered 50233, United States Court of Claims, including interest thereon, after payment of attorneys fees and other litigation expenses, shall be used as" follows: 85 per centum thereof shall be distributed in equal per capita shares to each person who is enrolled or entitled to be enrolled on the date of this Act; the remainder may be advanced, expended, invested or reinvested for any purposes that are authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 2. Any part of such funds that may be distributed to members of the Tribes shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax. SEC. 3. Sums payable under this Act to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than eighteen years of age or who are under a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons. Approved March 17, 1972. .... Public Law 92-254

March 18, 1972 [S. 671]

Indians. Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes. Judgment funds, division and disposition.

P e r capita distribution.

AN ACT

To provide for division and for the disposition of the funds appropriated to pa.v a judgment in favor of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reserva^ tion, Montana, and the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 279-A, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds appropriated by the Act of October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1190, 1198), to pay a judgment to the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana, and the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 279-A, together with interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees, litigation expenses, and the cost of carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall be divided by the Secretary of the Interior on the basis of 73.2 per centum to the Blackfeet Tribe and 26.8 per centum to the Gros Ventre Tribe. SEC. 2. The sum of $5,671,156 from the funds credited to the Blackfeet Tribe under section 1 of this Act shall be distributed per capita to each person whose name appears on or is entitled to appear on the membership roll of the Blackfeet Tribe, and who was born on or prior to and is living on the date of this Act. The sum of $2,100,000 from the funds credited to the Gros Ventre Tribe under section 1 of this Act shall be distributed per capita to all members of the Fort Belknap Community who were born on or prior to and are living on the date of

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