An Act to authorize the Secretary of Interior to prepare a roll of persons eligible to receive funds from an Indian Claims Commission judgment in favor of the Snake or Paiute Indians of the former Malheur Reservation in Oregon, to prorate and distribute such fun
PL 88-464 (H.R.8080), enacted 08/20/1964

78 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 88-464-AUG. 20, 1964 
563 
August 20, 1964 
[H. R. 8080] 
Public Law 88-464 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Interior to prepare a roll of persons eligible to 
receive funds from an Indian Claims Commission judgment in favor of the 
Snake or Paiute Indians of the former Malheur Reservation in Oregon, to 
prorate and distribute such funds, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatmen 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
gnt^roV Paiute 
of the Interior shall prepare a roll of the persons of Snake or Paiute Tribe, pryme"" * 
Indian ancestry who meet the following requirements for eligibility: 'oH-
(1) They were born on or prior to and living on the date of this Act; 
and (2) they were members of or are lineal descendants of members 
of the bands whose chiefs and headmen We-you-we-wa (Wewa), 
Gaha-nee, E-hi-gant 
(Egan), Po-nee, Chaw-wat-na-nee, 
Owits 
(Oits), and Tash-e-go, signed the unratified Treaty of December 10, 
1868; and (3) they do not elect to participate as beneficiaries of any 
awards granted in the docket numbered 87 claim of the Northern 
Paiute Nation. Applications for enrollment must be filed with the 
area director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland, Oregon, 
within nine months after the date of this Act on forms prescribed for 
that purpose. The determination of the Secretary regarding utiliza-
tion of available rolls or records and the eligibility for enrollment of 
an applicant shall be final. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized and directed to withdraw the 
funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of 
the Snake or Paiute Tribe that were appropriated by the Act of 
April 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 42), in satisfaction of a j u d ^ e n t that was 
obtained by the tribe in the Indian Claims Commission against the 
United States in docket numbered 17 together with the interest accrued 
thereon, after payment of attorney fees and expenses, as well as all 
other expenses, and to prorate such funds among those persons whose 
names appear on the roll prepared pursuant to section 1 of this Act 
for distribution as hereinafter provided. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary shall distribute shares payable to living 
persons enrolled pursuant to section 1 of this Act and shares payable 
to the heirs or legatees of deceased persons enrolled pursuant to section 
1 of this Act according to rules and regulations which he shall pre-
scribe, taking into account that in some instances a planned individual 
or group program for the use of shares may more properly serve the 
long-term interest of the enroUees than would a direct, unsupervised 
per capita payment. The funds so distributed shall not be subject to 
Federal or State income tax. 
SEC. 4. All costs incurred by the Secretary in the preparation of the 
rolls and in the distribution of payment of pro rata shares in accord-
ance with the provisions of this Act shall be paid by appropriate 
withdrawals from the judgment fund. 
SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved August 20, 1964.