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cedure, set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary

and Judicial Procedure.

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250a of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500b. Filing claim of title to reindeer by nonnatives

All persons, other than natives of Alaska, who

upon September 1, 1937, claim title to any Alaskan reindeer shall, within one year after September 1, 1937, file in Alaska, with the duly authorized agent or agents of the Secretary of the

Interior, declarations of their ownership. Similar declarations concerning Alaskan reindeer acquired by any person not a native of Alaska by

purchase or by gift at any time after September

1, 1937, shall be filed as aforesaid within thirty

days after the date of such acquisition. Records

of all declarations thus filed shall be made and

kept open to public inspection in Alaska. If any

owner of Alaskan reindeer, to whom the foregoing provisions of this section are applicable,

shall fail to file the required declaration within

the stated period, he shall be barred thereafter

from asserting his claim of title.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §3, 50 Stat. 900.)

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250b of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500c. Acceptance of gifts

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to receive, in the name of the United

States, for and on behalf of said natives of Alaska, gifts made for the purposes of this subchapter.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §4, 50 Stat. 900.)

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250c of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500d. Acceptance and expenditure of Federal

funds

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to receive and expend, for the purposes

of this subchapter, properly authorized loans,

grants, or allocations made to him for said purposes by Federal agencies.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §5, 50 Stat. 900.)

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250d of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500e. Revolving fund; moneys not to be covered

into Treasury

Except as herein otherwise specially provided,

none of the moneys collected or received by the

Secretary of the Interior in his administration

of this subchapter shall be paid into the Treasury, but all such moneys shall constitute a revolving fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior for the purposes of this

subchapter.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §6, 50 Stat. 900.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

Herein, referred to in text, means act Sept. 1, 1937,

which comprises this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250e of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500f. Management of industry by Secretary; aim

of management

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and

directed to organize and manage the reindeer industry or business provided for by this subchapter in such manner as to establish and

maintain for said natives of Alaska a complete

and self-sustaining economy and to encourage

and develop the activity and responsibility of

said natives in all branches of said industry or

business.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §7, 50 Stat. 900.)

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250f of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§ 500g. Distribution of reindeer, property, and

profits to natives

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to

distribute the reindeer and other property acquired by the United States under this subchapter among the Eskimos or other natives of

Alaska, or to corporations, associations, or organizations of said natives, either in the form of

gifts or under such conditions as the Secretary

of the Interior may prescribe, and to execute

and deliver appropriate instruments of title, or

to hold and use the same in trust for the use and

benefit of said natives, with a view of effecting

the widest possible distribution of such reindeer

and other property among those natives of Alaska who are in need thereof and who can make

proper use of the same: Provided, That during

the period of the trust, income derived directly

from the sale of reindeer and reindeer products

as provided in this subchapter shall be exempt

from Federal income taxation. The Secretary of

the Interior may from time to time, in such

manner as he determines to be proper for effectuating the purposes of this subchapter, distribute among those of said natives or corporations,

associations, or other organizations of said natives, who are engaged in said industry or business or for whose subsistence reindeer are necessary, whatever profits may be earned by that

part of the industry or business which is owned

by the United States and which may, in the

judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, be

distributed in accordance with sound business

practice.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, §8, 50 Stat. 901; Pub. L.

99–514, title XVII, §1709(a), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat.

2783.)

CODIFICATION

Section was formerly classified to section 250g of

Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

AMENDMENTS

1986—Pub. L. 99–514 inserted proviso directing that

during the period of the trust, income derived directly