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 No. 298, and the Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, and others, in Indian Claims Commission Docket No. 72, and for other purposes
PL 92-456 (H.R.14267), enacted 10/02/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-456-OCT. 3, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
October 3, 1972 
[H. R. 14267] 
Public Law 92-456 
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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 Num-
bered 298, and the Absentee Deiaw^are Tribe of Western Oklahoma, and others, 
in Indian Claims Commission Docket Numbered 72, and for other purposes. 
Indians. 
Delaware Tribes, 
Okla. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Roll. 
Applications. 
Apportionment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the funds 
appropriated by the Act of December 26, 1969 (83 Stat. 447, 453), to 
pay a judgment in favor of the petitioners, the Delaware Tribe of 
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. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of all per-
sons 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 Secre-
tary 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, 
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 applica-
tion 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 
Absentee Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma, as presently con-
stituted, 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 pur-
suant 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. 
Income tax ex-
emption. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
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(b) The funds not apportioned to the Absentee Delaware Tribe of 
Western Oklahoma shall be placed to the credit of the Delaware Tribe 
of Indians in the United States Treasury and shall be used in the fol-
lowing manner: 90 per centum of such funds shall be distributed in 
equal shares to each person enrolled pursuant to subsection 2(c) (1), 
and 10 per centum shall remain to the credit of the tribe in the United 
States Treasury and may be advanced, expended, invested, or rein-
vested for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body: 
Provided. That the Secretary of the Interior shall not approve the use 
of the funds remaining to the credit of the tribe until the tribe has 
organized a legal entity which in the judgment of the Secretary ade-
(i[uately protects the interests of its members. 
SKC. O. Sums payable to living enroUees age eighteen or older or to 
heirs or legatees of deceased enrollees age eighteen or older shall be 
paid directly to such persons. Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs 
or legatees who are imder age eighteen or who are under legal disa-
bility other than minority shall be paid in accordance with such 
])rocedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of 
the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such 
persons. 
SEC. H, Xoiie of the funds distributed per capita under W\^ provisior« 
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes. 
SEC. 7. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
nnd regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 3, 1972. 
Public Law 92-457 
JOINT R E S O L U T I O N 
October 3, 1972 
Designating, and authorizing tlie President to proclaim, February 11, 3UT8, as L". j . Res. 123.^ 
"National Inventors' Day", 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United. 
States of America in Congress assenibted^ That, in honor of the impor- 
National inven-
tant role played by inventors in promoting progress in the useful *°Des?gnation 
arts and in recognition of the invaluable contribution of inventors to authorization. 
the welfare of our people, February 11, 1973, is hereby designated 
•'National Inventors' Day". The President is authorized and requested 
to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States 
to celebrate such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. 
Approved October 3, 1972. 
Public Law 92-458 
AN ACT 
October 3, 1972 
• To provide relief for certain prewar Japanese bank claimants. 
[H. R. 8215] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstand- 
Japanese-
ing any other provision of law to the contrary, persons of Japanese To'kohama 
ancestry interned or paroled pursuant to the Alien Enemy Act dur- specie Bank, 
ing World War I I may assert debt claims based upon yen certificates mlnV.''^^""^' ^^^" 
of deposit issued by the pre-World War I I Hawaiian or United States 
so use 21. 
branches of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited, payable from the 
vested assets of the bank remaining in the custody of the Attorney 
General after final distribution is made under the April 30, 1968, 
judgments and decrees of the United States District Court for the