An Act to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay certain judgments in favor of the Iowa Tribes of Oklahoma and of Kansas and Nebraska
PL 92-29 (H.R.4353), enacted 06/23/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-29-JUNE 23, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
80 Stat. 378, 
379. 
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or other severely handicapped individuals for not less than 75 
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Effective date. 
"AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
"SEC. 6. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Committee 
to carry out this Act $200,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1972, and the next two succeeding fiscal years." 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
take effect on the first day of the first month which begins more than 
thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved June 23, 1971. 
June 23, 1971 
[H. R. 4353] 
Public Law 92-29 
.AN ACT 
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor 
of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and of Kansas and Nebraska in Indian Claims 
Commission dockets numbered 79-A, 153, 158, 209, and 231, and for other 
purposes. 
Indians. 
Iowa Tribes of 
Okla. and Kans.-
Nebf. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Per capita dis-
tribution. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asse?nbled, That (a) the funds 
on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Iowa 
Tribes of Oklahoma and of Kansas and Nebraska that were appropri-
ated by the Act of December 26, 1969 (83 Stat. 447), to pay a judg-
ment Jby the Indian Claims Commission in docket numbered 79-A, 
and the interest thereon, and funds appropriated by the Act of July 6, 
1970 (84 Stat. 376), to pay judgments in Indian Claims Commission 
dockets numbered 153, 158, 209, and 231, and the interest thereon, 
after payment of attorney fees and other litigation expenses, shall be 
divided on the basis of one-hundred-and-seventy-one two-hundred-
and-seventy-ninths (61.29 per centum) to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas 
and Nebraska and one-hundred-and-eight two-hundred-and-seventy-
ninths (38.71 per centum) to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma. 
(b) The funds so divided, including interest accruing thereon, may 
be advanced, deposited, expended, invested, or reinvested for any 
purposes that are authorized by the respective tribal governing bodies 
and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. 
(c) Any part of such funds that may be distributed per capita 
under the provisions of this Act shall be payable only to those persons 
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who meet the membership requirements specified in the constitution 
of the respective tribes. 
(d) None of the funds distributed per capita under the provisions 
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes. 
(e) Sums payable under this Act to enrollees or their heirs or 
legatees who are less than twenty-one years of age or who are under 
a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, 
including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior 
determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons. 
(f) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved June 23, 1971. 
Income tax ex-
emption. 
Minors, pay-
ment procedures. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
Public Law 92-30 
AN ACT 
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor 
of the Snohomish Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 125, 
the Upper Skagit Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 92, 
and the Snoqualmie and Skykomish Tribes in Indian Claims Commission 
docket numbered 93, and for other purposes. 
June 23, 1971 
[H. R. 1444] 
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 May 29, 1967 (81 Stat. 30, 42), to pay a 
judgment to the Snohomish Tribe in Indian Claims Commission 
docket numbered 125, and the Act of October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1190, 
1198), to pay judgments to the Upper Skagit Tribe in Indian Claims 
Commission docket numbered 92 and the Snoqualmie and Skykomish 
Tribes in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 93, together 
with the interests thereon, after payment of attorney fees and litiga-
tion 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 separate rolls of 
all persons born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act who 
are lineal descendants of members of the Snohomish Tribe, of the 
Upper Skagit Tribe, including the allied Suiattle-Sauk Band, and 
of the Snoqualmie and Skykomish Tribes, as they were constituted in 
1855: Provided^ That no person shall be enrolled as a descendant of 
the Snohomish Tribe if he has shared or is eligible to share in a per 
capita distribution of a judgment against the United States recovered 
by any other tribe. 
SEC. 3. Applications for enrollment must be filed with the Superin-
tendent, Western Washington Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, at 
Everett, Washington, in the manner and within the time limits pre-
scribed for that purpose. The determination of the Secretary of the 
Interior regarding the utilization of available records and rolls, and 
the eligibility for enrollment of an applicant, shall be final. 
SEC. 4. The judgment funds of the respective tribes shall be dis-
tributed per capita to the persons whose names appear on the roll of 
the respective tribe prepared in accordance with section 2 of this Act. 
SEC. 5. Sums payable to adult living enrollees or to adult heirs or 
legatees of deceased enrollees shall be paid directly to such persons. 
Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than 
twenty-one years of age or who are under legal disability shall be 
paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment 
of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate to 
protect the best interests of such persons. 
Indians. 
Snohomish, 
Upt5er Skagit, 
Snoqualmie and 
Skykomish Tribes. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Descendants, 
enrollment. 
Applications. 
Per capita dis-
tribution. 
Payment pro-
cedures. 
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