An Act 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
PL 90-585 (H.R.18885), enacted 10/17/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-585-OCT. 17, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
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-