An Act to amend the Act of June 23, 1949, relating to the telephone and telegraph service furnished Members of the House of Representatives
PL 89-131 (H.R.10139), enacted 08/21/1965

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PUBLIC LAW 89-131-AUGUST 21, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
Judgment funds. 
Definition. 
ada, the Secretary, in his discretion, is authorized to approve such 
rules. 
The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indians, composed 
of delegates elected in accordance with such approved rules and their 
duly elected successors in office, shall be the official Central Council 
of Tlingit and Haida Indians for purposes of this Act. 
Any amend-
nients to such rules shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary. 
"SEC. 8. The amount of the appropriation made to pay any judg-
ment in favor of said Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska shall be 
deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the 
Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, and such funds shall bear inter-
est at the rate of 4 per centum per annum. 
Such funds including the 
interest thereon shall not be available for advances, except for such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay attorney fees, expenses of litiga-
tion, organizational, operating and administrative expenses of the 
official Central Council, and expenses of program planning, until after 
legislation has been enacted that sets forth the purposes for which 
said funds shall be used. 
The Council is authorized to prepare plans 
for the use of said funds, and to exercise such further powers with 
respect to the advance, expenditure, and distribution of said funds as 
may be authorized by Congress. In order to facilitate the prompt 
use and distribution of said funds, the Secretary of the Interior, pur-
suant to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, is authorized 
and directed to prepare a roll of all persons of Tlingit or Haida blood 
who reside in the various local communities or areas of the United 
States or Canada on the date of this Act. 
The costs of preparing such 
roll incurred subsequent to the appropriation to pay any judgment 
shall be deducted from such judgment funds. 
Any part of such funds 
that may be distributed per capita to persons of Tlingit or Haida 
blood shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes." 
SEC. 2. As used in the Act of June 19,1935, as amended by this Act, 
the terms "Indians of Tlingit or Haida blood who reside in the various 
local communities or areas in the United States or Canada" and "per-
sons of Tlingit or Haida blood who reside in the various local commu-
nities or areas in the United States or Canada" mean only persons of 
Tlingit or Haida blood residing in a local community or area in the 
United States or Canada who were legal residents of the Territory 
of Alaska on June 19, 1935, or prior thereto, or who are descendants 
of persons of Tlingit or Haida blood who were legal residents of the 
Territory of Alaska on June 19,1935, or prior thereto. 
Approved August 19, 1965. 
August 21, 1965 
[H. R.10139] 
Public Law 89-131 
AN ACT 
'To amend the Act of June 23, 1949, relating to the telephone and telegraph 
service furnished Members of the House of Representatives. 
House of Repre-
sentatives. 
Telephone and 
telegraph allow-
ance. 
73 Stat. 605. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That clause (1) of 
subsection (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act relating to 
telephone and telegraph service and clerk hire for Members of the 
House of Representatives", apj)roved June 23, 1949, as amended (2 
U.S.C. 46g), is amended by striking out "five" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "four". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act-shall 
take effect as of noon, January 3, 1965. 
Approved Augu.st 21, 1965.