An Act to authorize a per capita payment to members of the Menominee Tribe of Indians
PL 82-118 (H.R.3782), enacted 08/20/1951

65 STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 120—AUG. 21, 1951 
193 
Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Girl Scouts of the United 
States of America, and for other purposes", approved March 16, 1950, 
is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 6. The corporation shall have the sole and exclusive right to 
have and to use, in carrying out its purposes, all emblems and badges, 
descriptive or designating marks, and words or phrases now or here-
tofore used by the old corporation and by its successor in carrying 
out its program, including the sole and exclusive right to use, or to 
authorize the.use of, during the existence of the corporation, the badge 
of the Girl Scouts, Incorporated, which is referred to in the Act of 
August 12, 1937 (Public, Numbered 259, Seventy-fifth Congress; 50 
Stat. 628), and all the other aforesaid emblems and badges, descriptive 
or designating marks, and words or phrases in connection with the 
manufacturing, advertising, and selling of equipment and merchan-
dise: Provided^ 
however^ That nothing in this Act shall interfere or 
conflict with established or vested rights."' 
Approved August 17, 1951. 
64 Stat. 22. 
36 U. S. C. §36. 
Emblems, badges, 
etc. 
Public Law 118 
CHAPTER 335 
AN ACT 
To authorize a per capita payment to nieml)ers of tlie Menoiniiiee Tribe of Indians. 
August 20, 1951 
[H. R. 3782] 
Be it enacted 
hy the Senate 
and House of Representatives 
of the 
United 
States 
of America 
in Congress 
assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to withdraw from the 
Menominee 5 per centum fund in the Treasury and to expend such 
amount as is necessary to make a per capita payment of $150 to each 
individual entered on the roll of the Menominee Tribe of Indians of 
Wisconsin as of December 31,1950. 
Approved August 20, 1951. 
Menominee T r i b e 
of Indians. 
Public Law 119 
CHAPTER 336 
AN ACT 
To authorize the city of Burlington, Iowa, to own, maintain, and operate a toll 
bridge across the Mississippi River at or near said city. 
August 20, 1951 
[H. R. 4332] 
Be it enacted 
hy the Senate 
and House of Representatives 
of the 
United 
States of America 
in Congress 
assembled. 
That the city of 
Mfgf'arfurUng-
Burlington, Iowa, is hereby authorized to own, maintain, and operate ton, lowa. 
the existing interstate toll bridge, approaches thereto, and connecting 
highways extending across the Mississippi River from within said 
city, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved 
March 23,1906. 
ltTs%.,,,,i-
SEC, 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 498. 
expressly reserved. 
Approved August 20, 1951. 
Public Law 120 
CHAPTER 338 
AN ACT 
To provide for the use of the tribal funds of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah 
and Ouray Reservation, to authorize a per capita payment out of such funds, 
to provide for the division of certain tribal funds with the Southern Utes, 
and for other purposes. 
August 21, 1951 
[H. R. 3795] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate 
and House of Rejyresentatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress 
assembled, 
That, notwithstand- 
Tdbai'Sr'^''" 
194 
PUBLIC LAW 120—AUG. 21. 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Funds for loans. 
48 Stat. 984. 
Division of trust 
funds. 
25 U. S. C. § 399. 
43 U. S. C. §315j. 
Ratification of reso-
lution adopted June 1, 
1950. 
25 U. S. C. § 156. 
25 U. S. C. §§ 161a-
161d. 
ing any other provision of existing law, the tribal funds now on deposit 
or hereafter deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of 
the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation may be 
expended or advanced for such purposes, including per capita pay-
ments, as may be designated by the Tribal Business Committee of 
said tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided^ 
That the aggregate amount of the expenditures and advances author-
ized by this section shall not exceed 331/^ per centum of such tribal 
funds now on deposit: Provided further. That with the exception of 
a $1,000 per capita payment which is hereby authorized, no per capita 
payment shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior from the 
principal of any judgment obtained under the Jurisdictional Act of 
June 28,1938 (52 Stat. 1209), as amended, without further legislation: 
Provided further^ That any funds advanced for loans by the tribe to 
individual Indians or associations of Indians shall be subject to regu-
lations established for the making of loans from the revolving loan 
fund authorized by the Act of June 18, 1934 (25 U. S. C, sec. 470) : 
Provided further^ That no part of the funds authorized to be expended 
or advanced by this section shall be paid or delivered to or received 
by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered in connection 
with the preparation or prosecution of the suit or suits in the Court 
of Claims which resulted in any or all of the judgments handed down 
by said court on July 13^ 1950, unless approved by the said court in 
the proceeding now pending before said court for the adjudication of 
attorneys' fees, or to any agent or attorney on account of any contract 
for services rendered or to be rendered in the preparation of any suit 
against the United States. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and 
directed to divide the trust funds belonging to the Confederated 
Bands of Ute Indians and deposited in the United States Treasury 
pursuant to the Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. 33), section 11 of the 
Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1273), as amended, and the Act of 
June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1211), as amended, including the interest 
thereon, by crediting 60 per centum to the Ute Indian Tribe of the 
Uintah and Ouray Reservation, consisting of the Uintah, Uncom-
pahgre, and White River Utes, and 40 per centum to the Southern 
Utes, consisting of the Southern Utes of the Southern Ute Reservation 
and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation. 
The 
resolution adopted June 1,1950, by the members of the Uncompahgre, 
White River, and Uintah bands of Ute Indians compromising and 
settling all existing controversies between themselves as to ownership 
and distribution of any judgments which may be obtained against the 
United States and as to ownership of land within the Uintah and 
Ouray Reservation and income issuing therefrom by providing that 
the same shall become the tribal property of all the Indians of the Ute 
Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation without regard 
to band derivation is hereby ratified, approved and confirmed. 
The 
funds apportioned to the Southern Utes under this section shall be 
divided between the Southern Utes of the Southern Ute Reservation 
and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation as agreed 
between said tribes. The shares of the respective groups shall be 
credited to the existing accounts established pursuant to the Act of 
May 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 560), and the Act of June 13, 1930 (46 Stat. 
584). None of the funds involved herein shall be credited or dis-
tributed to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reserva-
tion, consisting of the Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White River Utes, 
until the Uncompahgre and White River Bands present to the Secre-
tary of the Interior a release satisfactory to him, relieving the United 
States of any liability resulting from the inclusion of the Uintah 
Band in the disposition or use of said trust funds. 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 121—AUG. 21, 1951 
195 
SEC. 3. Tlie Secretary of the Interior shall make a full and complete 
annual progress report to the Congress of his activities and of the 
expenditures authorized under section 1. 
Approved August 21, 1951. 
Report to Congress. 
Public Law 121 
CHAPTER 339 
AN ACT 
To provide appropriate lapel buttons for widows, parents, and next of kin of 
members of the Armed Forces who lost or lose their lives in the armed services 
of the United States during World War II or during any subsequent war or 
period of armed hostilities in which the United States may be engaged. 
August 21, 1961 
[H. R. 3911] 
Gold 
button. 
Procurement. 
Furnishing of 
tons 
to 
wid 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of 
August 1,1947 (61 Stat. 710, title 36, U. S. C. 182a-182d), is amended 
to read as follows: 
'^That the Secretary of Defense shall formulate and fix the size, 
design, and composition of a lapel button (to be known as the 'gold 
star lapel button') suitable as a means of identification for widows, 
parents, and next of kin of members of the Armed Forces of the 
United States who lost or lose their lives in the armed services of 
the United States during World War I, World War II, or during any 
subsequent war or period of armed hostilities in which the United 
States may be engaged. 
The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and 
Air Force shall procure for their respective departments such num-
ber of gold star lapel buttons as shall be necessary to effect distribu-
tion of such buttons in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
"SEC. 2. (a) Upon application to the Department of the Army, 
Department of the Navy, or the Department of the Air Force, as the pare^its^etc. 
case may be, one such gold star lapel button shall be furnished, with-
out cost, to the widow and to each of the parents of a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States who lost or loses his or her life 
in the armed services of the United States during World War I, 
World War II, or during any subsequent war or period of armed 
hostilities in which the United States may be engaged. 
"(b) In addition to the gold star lapel button authorized in sub-
section (a) of this section, gold star lapel buttons shall also be fur-
nished, upon application and the payment of an amount sufficient to 
cover the cost of manufacture and distribution, to the next of kin, 
not hereinbefore designated, of any such deceased person. 
"(c) Not more than one gold star lapel button shall be furnished 
to any one individual as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this 
section, except whenever a gold star lapel button furnished under 
the provisions of this Act shall have been lost, destroyed, or rendered 
unfit for use, without fault or neglect on the part of the person to 
whom it was furnished such button may be replaced, upon applica-
tion, by payment of an amount sufficient to cover the cost of manu-
facture and distribution. 
"(d) Gold star lapel buttons shall be distributed in accordance 
with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. 
"SEC. 3. As used in this Act, (a) the term 'widow' shall include 
widower; (b) the term 'parents' shall include mother, father, step-
mother, stepfather, mother through adoption, father through adop-
tion, and foster parents who stood in loco parentis; (c) the term 
'next of kin' shall include only children, brothers, sisters, half broth-
ers, and half sisters; (d) the term 'children' shall include stepchildren 
and children through adoption; (e) the term 'World War I' shall 
include the period extending from April 6, 1917, to March 3, 1921; 
star lapel 
but-
ows, 
Replacements. 
Distribution. 
Definitions.