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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 585. Membership rolls; preparation; eligibility for enrollment; application; finality of determination
For the purpose of apportioning the award in accordance with
sections 581 to 590 of this title, membership rolls, duly approved
by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be prepared for each of the
three groups, as follows:
(a) The governing body of the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation and the governing body of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes,
each shall, with the assistance of the Secretary, bring current the
membership rolls of their respective tribes, to include all persons
born prior to and alive on December 18, 1971, who are enrolled or
eligible to be enrolled in accordance with the membership
requirements of their respective tribes.
(b) The proposed roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone
Indians entitled to participate in the distribution of the judgment
funds shall be prepared by the governing officers of said
Northwestern Bands, with the assistance of the Secretary of the
Interior, within six months after December 18, 1971, authorizing
distribution of said funds. The roll shall include all persons who
meet all of the following requirements of eligibility:
(1) They were born prior to and alive on December 18, 1971;
(2) Either their names appear on one of the following Indian
census rolls of the Washakie Sub-Agency of the Fort Hall
jurisdiction:
(a) Roll dated January 1, 1937, by F. A. Gross,
Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation.
(b) Roll dated January 1, 1940, by F. A. Gross,
Superintendent of the Fort Hall Reservation.
(c) Roll dated March 10, 1954.
(d) Roll dated April 21, 1964.
or they possess one-quarter Shoshone Indian blood and they are
descendants of those appearing on at least one of said rolls;
(3) They are not recognized as members of the Shoshone-Bannock
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, the Shoshone Tribe of the
Wind River Reservation, or any other Indian Tribe; and
(4) They shall elect not to participate in any settlement of
claims pending before the Indian Claims Commission in docket
326-J, Shoshone-Goshute, and docket 326-K, Western Shoshone.
The proposed roll shall be published in the Federal Register, and
in a newspaper of general circulation in the State of Utah. Any
person claiming membership rights in the Northwestern Bands of
Shoshone Indians, or any interest in said judgment funds, or a
representative of the Secretary on behalf of any such person,
within sixty days from the date of publication in the Federal
Register, or in the newspaper of general circulation, as
hereinbefore provided, whichever publication date is last, may file
an appeal with the Secretary contesting the inclusion or omission
of the name of any person on or from such proposed roll. The
Secretary shall review such appeals, and his decision thereon shall
be final and conclusive. After disposition of all such appeals to
the Secretary, the roll of the Northwestern Bands of Shoshone
Indians shall be published in the Federal Register and such roll
shall be final.
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