An Act to provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Southern Paiute Nation of Indians in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 88, 330, and 330-A, and for other purposes.
PL 90-584 (S.3227), enacted 10/17/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-584-OCT. 17, 1968 
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Public Law 90-584 
AN A C T 
October 17, 1968 
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor 
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of the Southern Paiute Nation of Indians in Indian Claims Commission dockets 
numbered 88, 330, and 330-A, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the pur- Indians. 
pose of disposing of the sum of $7,253,165.19 appropriated April 30, Nauon.^'^" 
1965 (79 Stat, 81, 108, 109), to pay a judgment of the Indian Claims 
judgment funds, 
Commission entered in its dockets numbered 88, 330, and 330-A on 'ii^p°«i"°«-
January 18,1965, on behalf of the Southern Paiute Nation, the bands 
and groups of Southern Paiute Indians named in the petitions and 
the Las Vegas Band, together with interest accruing thereon, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of all persons who meet 
the following requirements for eligibility: (a) they were bom on or 
prior to and living on the date of this Act and are (b) enrolled or 
entitled to be enrolled as members of the Kaibab Band of Paiute 
Indians of the Kaibab Reservation, Arizona, or (c) enrolled or en-
titled to be enrolled as members of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians 
of the Moapa River Reservation, Nevada, or (d) whose names or the 
name of a lineal ancestor appears on the final rolls of the Shivwits, 
Kanosh, Koosharem, and Indian Peaks Bands of Paiute Indians 
which were prepared pursuant to the Act of September 1, 1954 (68 
Stat. 1099), or (e) Southern Paiute Indians whose names or the 
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name of a lineal ancestor appears on the January 1, 1940, census roll 
of the Cedar City, Utah, Indians, or (f) Southern Paiute Indians 
whose names or the name of a lineal ancestor appears on the January 
1, 1940, census roll of the Las Vegas Colony, Nevada, or (g) Indians 
living elsewhere who can establish Southern Paiute lineal descent to 
the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided^ hoivever. 
That no enrollee shall have eilected or shall elect to participate in the 
judgment awarded by the Indian Claims Commission in its dockets 
numbered 31, 37, 80, 80-D, and 347, granted to "Certain Indians of 
California" or in dockets numbered 351 and 351-A granted to the 
Chemehuevi Tribe of Indians. Any person qualifying for enrollment 
as a member of more than one of the named Indian groups shall elect 
with which group he shall be enrolled for the purpose of this Act. 
SEC. 2. Applications for enrollment must be filed with the Area Di- Applications. 
rector, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix, Arizona, in the manner and 
v/'thin the time limits prescribed by the Secretary for that purpose. 
The Secretary's determination on all applications for enrollment shall 
be final. 
SFX'. 3. Tlie cost of preparing the Southern Paiute Indian roll, and 
of disposing of the judgment funds, and the deduction of attorneys' 
fees and ex))enses and the cost of litigation, shall be deducted from the 
judgment fund. The balance of said fund, together with accrued in- Apportionment. 
terest, shall be apportioned by the Secretary of the Interior among 
the grou])s of persons entitled to enrollment on the Southern Paiute 
Indian roll as provided in section 1 of this Act. Apportionment among 
said groups shall be on the ratio that the number of enrollees in each 
group shall bear to the total number enrolled on the Southern Paiute 
Indian roll. 
SEC. 4. The total amounts apportioned to the groups enrolled in sec- 
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tion 1 (b) and (c) shall be redeposited in the Treasury of the United 
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Equal shares. 
Minor enroUees, 
protection. 
Disposition. 
Tax exemption. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
expended, invested, or reinvested in any manner authorized by the gov-
erning body and approved by the Secretary. 
SEC. 5. The funds apportioned to those Southern Paiute Indians 
enrolled, under sections 1 (f) and (g) shall be available for distribution 
in equal shares to the enrollees except as provided in section 6 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 6. Sums payable 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 as the Secretary 
determines will best protect their interests, including the establish-
ment of trusts. 
SEC. 7. All funds, including interest, of the adult members of any 
group enrolled pursuant to sections 1 (d) and (e) of this Act may be 
advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested in any manner pursuant 
to a plan agreed upon between the governing body thereof or by 
the members thereof, at a meeting called in accordance with rules 
approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and the Board of Indian 
Affairs of the State of Utah, subject, however, to the previous approval 
of such plan by the Secretary of the Ini erior. However, the Secretary 
of the Interior shall not be charged with any responsibility in the 
administration of the funds. 
SEC. 8. No part of the per capita distributions made under authority 
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income tax. 
SEC. 9, The Secretary is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations 
to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 17, 1968. 
Public Law 90-585 
October 17, 1968 
AN A C T 
[H. R. 18885] 
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor 
of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma in dockets numbered 150 and 248 of the 
Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes. 
Indians. 
Seminole Tribe. 
Judgment funds, 
disposition. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the unexpended 
balance of the funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States 
to the credit of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma that were appropri-
ated by the Act of September 29, 1959 (73 Stat. 717), to pay a judg-
ment by the Indian Claims Commission in docket numbered 150, and by 
the Act of May 13, 1966 (80 Stat. 141), to pay a judgment by the 
Indian Claims Commission in docket numbered 248, and any interest 
thereon, less payment of attorneys' fees and expenses, together with 
those school funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States 
under the following symbols and titles: 
14X7091 Seminole school fund. 
14X7591 Interest and accruals on interest, Seminole school 
fund, may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for any 
purpose that is authorized by the General Council of the Seminole 
Tribe of Oklahoma or other recognized governing body of that 
tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved October 17, 1968-