An Act to designate a stream in California as the ""Petaluma River.""
PL 86-193 (H.R.2191), enacted 08/25/1959

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PUBLIC LAW 86-193-AUG. 26, 1959 
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Choctaw funds. 
Per capita dis-
tribution. 
D i s p o s ition of 
unclaimed funds. 
SEC. 8. Xothhig in this Act shall affect any claim heretofore filed 
against the United States by the Choctaw Tribe. 
SEC. 9. Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Act 
of August 11,1955 (69 Stat. 666). 
SEC. 10. In any per capita distribution of tribal funds that is here-
after made to members of the Choctaw Tribe, or their heirs or legatees, 
no payment shall be made in an amount that is less than $1, and any 
share that is less than $1 shall be credited to the appropriation avail-
able for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 11. No principal chief of the Choctaw Tribe shall be appointed 
pursuant to section 6 of the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137), 
after a legal entity is designated and approved pursuant to subsection 
(a) of the first section of this Act, or after three years from the date 
of enactment of this Act, whichever is sooner. 
SEC. 12. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is directed to exercise 
the discretionary authority granted by the Act of May 24, 1949 (63 
Stat. 76, 84), to distribute per capita all of the funds held by the 
United States for the benefit of the Choctaw Tribe; except the amount 
necessary for the operation of the Choctaw Tribal Government until 
a legal entity is designated and approved pursuant to subsection (a) 
of the first section of this Act or until three years from the date of 
enactment of this Act, whichever is sooner. 
(b) Any per capita sum or other tribal funds or securities accruing 
to any member of the Choctaw Tribe or to his heirs or legatees, under 
this or any other Act, including any such sums that have been credited 
to individual Indian money accounts without application of the Indian 
for his distributive share of the tribal asset involved, that is not 
claimed by such person within seven years after the Secretary has 
first announced the procedure for submitting claims or within two 
years after the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later, shall 
escheat to the tribe by operation of law and shall be transferred by the 
Secretary immediately upon the expiration of such time to the legal 
entity that is designated and approved pursuant to subsection (a) 
of the first section of this Act. 
If no such legal entity is designated 
and approved within three years from the date of enactment of this 
Act, any sums that would escheat to the tribe under this subsection 
shall escheat to the United States and be deposited in the miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury. 
(c) The legal entity organized under State law and designated and 
approved pursuant to subsection (a) of the first section of this Act, 
if any, shall be the successor in interest to the Choctaw Tribe for all 
purposes. 
Approved August 25, 1959. 
August 25, 1959 
[H. R. 2191] 
Public Law 86-193 
AN ACT 
To designate a stream in California as the "Petaluma River". 
Petaluma River, 
Calif. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the body of 
water in California now designated and referred to as "Petaluma 
Creek" shall hereafter be known and designated as "Petaluma River". 
Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in 
which such body of water is designated or referred to by the name of 
"Petaluma Creek" shall be held and considered to refer to such body 
of water as "Petaluma River". 
Approved August 25, 1959.