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 99 STAT. 549

PUBLIC LAW 99-130—OCT. 28, 1985 Public Law 99-130 99th Congress An Act To provide for the use and distribution of funds awarded in docket 363 to the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute Eastern or Mississippi Sioux before the United States Court of Claims and Claims Court.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. SECTION 1. (a) That notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the funds for awards to the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute Sioux appropriated on January 30, 1981 ($800,000), on October 15, 1982 ($591,058), and one-half of the funds appropriated on March 2, 1981 ($7,500), all in docket numbered 363 before the United States Court of Claims, and the funds appropriated on August 1, 1983 ($3,468,246.48), in docket numbered 363 before the United States Claims Court, less attorney fees and litigation expenses, and including all interest and investment income accrued, shall be divided by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter the "Secretary") as follows: Percent (1) Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska (2) Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (3) Prairie Island Sioux, Lower Sioux, and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Communities of Minnesota to be divided on the basis of the respective members of each of the three communities, born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act

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(b) To the share of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska in subsection (a) of this section shall be added $172,363.20, and to the share of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe $135,244.32, both sums appropriated on August 1, 1983, in docket numbered 363, less attorney fees and litigation expenses, and including all interest and investment income accrued. SEC. 2. The share of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska shall be used and distributed as follows: (a) Eighty per centum of the funds apportioned shall be used and distributed as follows: (1) the Secretary shall make a per capita distribution of $300 to each tribal member born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act, except that those members at least sixty years of age on that date shall be paid $900. (2) the balance of the 80 per centum portion of the funds shall be invested by the Secretary for a tribal investment fund designed to yield periodic dividend payments to all tribal members born on or prior to and living on the dates such dividend payments are declared. Only the interest and investment income accrued shall be available for dividend payments. The amounts and payment dates shall be determined by the tribal governing body with the approval of the Secretary, and the first of such payments shall not be made earlier than five years from the date of the per capita payment in paragraph (1) of this subsection.

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