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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 474. Continuation of allowances
The Secretary of the Interior is directed to continue the
allowance of the articles enumerated in section 17 of the Act of
March 2, 1889 (23 Stat. L. 894), or their commuted cash value under
the Act of June 10, 1896 (29 Stat. L. 334), to all Sioux Indians
who would be eligible, but for the provisions of this Act, to
receive allotments of lands in severalty under section 19 of the
Act of May 29, 1908 (25 Stat. L. 451), or under any prior Act, and
who have the prescribed status of the head of a family or single
person over the age of eighteen years, and his approval shall be
final and conclusive, claims therefor to be paid as formerly from
the permanent appropriation made by said section 17 and carried on
the books of the Treasury for this purpose. No person shall receive
in his own right more than one allowance of the benefits, and
application must be made and approved during the lifetime of the
allottee or the right shall lapse. Such benefits shall continue to
be paid upon such reservation until such such time as the lands
available therein for allotment on June 18, 1934, would have been
exhausted by the award to each person receiving such benefits of an
allotment of eighty acres of such land.
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