An Act to authorize the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole Tribes of Indians to make contracts with approval of the Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe
PL 82-440 (H.R.1788), enacted 07/03/1952

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been presented for consideration and disapproved for the reason that 
the claimant did not file such claim within the time authorized by 
law, or any claim cognizable hereunder of any survivor which has 
not heretofore been presented for consideration, or has been presented 
for consideration and disapproved for the reason that heretofore 
such survivor acquired no right of recovery under this Act, may, at 
the written request of the claimant made within one year from the 
date of the enactment of this amendatory Act, be considered or recon-
sidered and settled in accordance with the provisions hereof. 
(e) Any settlement made by the Secretary of the Army, the Secre-
tary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary 
of Defense, or their designees, under the authority of this Act and 
such regulations as they, respectively, may prescribe hereunder, shall 
be final and conclusive for all purposes, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law to the contrary. 
All such settlements shall be 
reported to the Congress annually by the heads of the departments 
concerned and the report shall state with respect to each settlement 
the name of the claimant, the amount claimed, and the amount paid. 
SEC. 2. That section 2 of the Military Personnel Claims Act of 
1945 is hereby amended to read as follows: 
SEC. 2. Such appropriations as may be required for the settlement 
of claims under the provisions of this Act are hereby authorized. 
Appropriations now available to the Department of the Army and 
the Department of the Air Force for the settlement of claims under 
the provisions of the Act of May 29, 1945 (59 Stat. 225), and to the 
Department of the Navy for the settlement of claims under the pro-
visions of the Act of December 28, 1945 (59 Stat. 662), shall be avail-
able for the settlement of claims under the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. That section 2 of the Act of December 28, 1945 (59 Stat. 
662), is hereby repealed. 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
Settlement. 
Reports. 
31 u s e 222d. 
Appropriation. 
38 u s e 693 note. 
Repeal. 
Public Law 440 
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AN ACT 
To authorize the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole Tribes of 
Indians to make contracts with approval of the Secretary of the Interior, or 
his authorized representative, under such rules and regulations as the Secre-
tary of the Interior may prescribe. 
uly 3, 1952 
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Jul 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled., That contracts 
involving the payment or expenditure of any money or affecting any 
property belonging to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or 
Seminole Tribes of Indians, including contracts for professional legal 
services, may be made by said tribes, with the approval of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, under such rules 
and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Pro-
vided., That the provisions of this section shall not apply to contracts 
for professional legal services involving the prosecution of claims 
against the United States. 
SEC. 2. That the second proviso in section 28 of the Act of April 26, 
1906 (34 Stat. 148), and the provisions contained in the fifth paragraph 
of section IT of the Act of March 3, 1911 (36 Stat. 1070), dealing with 
contracts made by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians for 
professional legal services of attorneys, are hereby repealed. 
Approved July 3, 1952. 
Indians, 
eontracts. 
Repeals. 
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