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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 586. Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians; payment to enrollees; heirs or legatees; trust for minors and persons under legal disability
The funds apportioned to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone
Indians, less attorney's fees, and expenses due the attorneys
representing the Northwestern Band under an approved contract,
effective March 1, 1968, shall be placed to its credit in the
United States Treasury and shall be distributed equally to the
members whose names appear on the final roll and in accordance with
the provisions of sections 581 to 590 of this title.
(a) The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the
number of persons listed on the proposed roll published as
hereinbefore provided and the number of persons on whose behalf an
appeal has been taken to the Secretary contesting omission from
such proposed roll. The share of those persons excluded from the
final roll by reason of the decision of the Secretary on appeal
shall be distributed equally to the persons included on the final
roll.
(b) The Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a living
enrollee directly to such enrollee. The per capita share of a
deceased enrollee shall be paid to his heirs or legatees upon proof
of death and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary, whose
findings upon such proof shall be final and conclusive. A share or
interest therein payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees
who are less than twenty-one years of age or who are under legal
disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures,
including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary determines
appropriate to protect the best interest of such persons.
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