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PUBLIC LAW 92-456-OCT. 3, 1972 Public Law 92-456

October 3, 1972 [H. R. 14267]

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AN ACT To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbered 298, and the Absentee Deiaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, and others, in Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbered 72, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Indians. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the funds Delaware T r i b e s, appropriated by the Act of December 26, 1969 (83 Stat. 447, 453), to Okla. Judgment funds, pay a judgment in favor of the petitioners, the Delaware Tribe of disposition. Indians in docket 298, and the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, and others, in docket 72, together with any interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees, litigation expenses, and such expenses as may be necessary in effecting the provisions of this Act, shall be distributed as provided herein. Roll. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of all persons who meet the following requirements: (a) they were born on or prior to and were living on the date of this Act;, and (b) they are cidzens of the United States; and (c)(1) their name or the name of a lineal ancestor appears on the Delaware Indian per capita payroll approved by the Secretary on April 20, 1906, or (2) their name or the name of a lineal ancestor is on or is eligible to be on the constructed base census roll as of 1940 of the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, approved by the Secretary, Applications. SEC. 3. All applications for enrollment must be filed either with the Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Muskogee, Oklahoma, or with the Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Anadarko, Oklahoma, on or before the last day of the fourth full month following the date of this Act, and no application shall be accepted thereafter. The Secretary of the Interior shall give a rejection notice within sixty days after receipt of an application if the applicant is ineligible for enrollment. An appeal from a rejected application must be filed with the Area Director not later than thirty days from receipt of the notice of rejection. The Secretary shall make a final determination on each appeal not later than sixty days from the date it is filed. Each application and each appeal filed with the Area Director shall be reviewed by a committee composed of representatives of the two Oklahoma Delaware groups prior to submission of the application or appeal to the Secretary, and the committee shall advise the Area Director in writing of its judgment regarding the eligibility of the applicant. SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall apportion to the Apportionment. Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, as presently constituted, so much of the judgment fund and accrued interest as the ratio of the persons enrolled pursuant to subsection 2(c)(2) bears to the total number of persons enrolled pursuant to section 2. The funds so apnortioned to the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma shall be placed to the credit of the tribe in the United States Treasury and shall be used in the following manner: 90 per centum of such funds shall be distributed in equal shares to each person enrolled pursuant to subsection 2(c)(2), and 10 per centum shall remain to the credit of the tribe in the United States Treasury, and may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

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