An Act to provide for the disposition of judgment funds of the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
PL 92-586 (H.R.7093), enacted 10/27/1972

86 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-586-OCT. 27, 1972 
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" (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons under-
going academic training under the Program shall not be comited 
against any employment ceiling affecting the Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare. 
"(h) The Secretary shall issue regulations governing the imple-
mentation of this section. 
"(i) To carry out the Program, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974." 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
Employment 
ceiling, exception. 
Regulations. 
Appropriation. 
Public Law 92-586 
AN ACT 
To provide for the disposition of judgment funds of the Osage Tribe of Indians 
of Oklahoma. 
October 27, 1972 
[H. R. 7093] 
Be it eTiacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That (a) the Secre-
tary of the Interior is authorized and directed to distribute per capita 
to all persons whose names appear on the roll of the Osage Tribe of 
Indians approved by the Secretary of the Interior April 11, 1908, 
pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), all funds which 
were appropriated by the Act of January 8, 1971 (84 Stat. 1981), in 
satisfaction of a judgment that was obtained by the Osage Nation of 
Indians in the Indian Claims Commission against the United States in 
dockets numbered 105,106,107, and 108, together with interest thereon, 
except the sum of $1,000,000 and any funds that revert to the Osage 
Tribe and except the amount allowed for attorney fees and expenses 
and the cost of distribution. 
(b) The sum of $1,000,000 plus any funds that revert to the Osage 
Tribe may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for the 
purpose of financing an education program or other socioeconomic 
programs of benefit to the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, such 
programs to be administered as authorized by the Secretary of the 
Interior. 
(c) The Secretary of the Interior may make appropriate with-
drawals from the judgment funds and interest thereon, using interest 
funds first, to pay costs incident to carrying out the provisions of this 
Act. 
SEC. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this 
section, a share or proportional share payable to a living original Osage 
allottee shall be paid to such allottee. 
(b) A share of a deceased Osage allottee having died prior to or 
after the passage of this Act shall be distributed to his heirs of Osage 
Indian blood pursuant to an order determining heirs by the Secretary 
of the Interior or a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of 
Oklahoma, and such distributions by the Secretary of the Interior shall 
be final and conclusive. In the event the heirs of Osage Indian blood 
of an Osage Indian having died prior to or after the passage of this 
Act have not been determined by the Secretary of the Interior or a 
court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, such share 
shall be distributed to the heirs of Osage Indian blood upon the filing 
of proof of death and inheritance in accordance with the Oklahoma law 
of intestate succession in a form satisfactory to the Secretary of the 
Interior whose findings and determinations upon such proof shall be 
final and conclusive: Provided^ That when a person of Osage Indian 
blood receives an amount totaling less than $20 from one or more shares 
of one or more Osage allottees, that amount shall not be distributed 
to the individual, but will revert to the Osage Tribe. 
Indians. 
Osage Tribe, 
Okla. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Education pro-
gram. 
Fund with-
drawals. 
Distribution. 
Exception. 
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Minors. 
Regulations. 
Per capita 
shares. 
Unclaimed 
shares. 
Tax exemption. 
Regulations. 
(c) A share or proportional share payable to a person of Osage 
Indian blood under eighteen years of age and any person under 
guardianship pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdic-
tion notwithstanding the fact he has received a certificate of compe-
tency shall be disbursed under rules and regulations to be prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. All claims for per capita shares by heirs of Osage Indian 
blood shall be filed with the Superintendent, Osage Agency, Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma, not later than eighteen months from the date of approval 
of this Act. Thereafter, all claims and the right to file same shall be 
forever barred and the unclaimed shares shall revert to the Osage 
Tribe. Unclaimed shares of distributees shall revert to the Osage Tribe 
six months after determination by the Secretary of the Interior of 
their right to share. 
SEC. 4. None of the funds distributed per capita under the provi-
sions of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes. 
SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe 
rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
October 27, 1972 
[H. R. 4678] 
Public Law 92-587 
AN ACT 
To provide foi* the free entry of a carillon for the use of the University of 
California at ISanta Barbara, and for other purposes. 
Imports. 
U. of Calif., 
carillon; caprolac-
tam monomer; 
pre-Columbian art. 
77A Stat. 431; 
84 Stat. 411. 
Effective date. 
84 Stat. 284. 
19 u s e 1514. 
Be it ouicted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vidted States of Amema 
in Congress assembled^ That the Seci'etary 
of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty a 
carillon imported June, 1969, for the use of the University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara. 
SEC". 2. If the liquidation of the entry of the article described in the 
first section of this Act has become final, such entry shall be reliqui-
dated and the appropriate refund of duty shall be made. 
SEC. 3. (a) Subpart B of part 1 of the appendix to the Tariff Sched-
ules of the Ignited States (19 L^.S.C. 1202) is amended by inserting 
immediately after item 907.-15 the following new item: 
907.63 
Caprolactam monomer in water solution 
(provided for in item 403.70, part IB, 
schedule 4) 
Free 
No change 
On or before 
December 31, 
1972. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumi^tion on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) Upon request therefor filed with the customs officer concerned 
on or before the ninetieth day after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the entry or withdrawal of any article— 
(1) which was made after August 15, 1972, and before the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and 
(2) with respect to which there would have been no duty if 
the amendment made by subsection (a) applied to such entry 
or withdrawal, 
shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 514 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930 or any other provision of law, be liquidated or reliquidated 
as though such entry or withdrawal had been made on the date of the 
enactment of this Act.