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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 609. Action to determine title to judgment fund; claim of Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; jurisdiction of Court of Claims
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, acting
through the chairman of its business council, and the Yakima Tribes
of Indians of the Yakima Reservation, acting through the chairman
of its tribal council, for and on behalf of said tribes and each
and all their constituent tribal groups, are each hereby authorized
to commence or defend in the United States Court of Claims an
action against each other making claims to a share in the funds
that are on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to pay a
judgment of the Indian Claims Commission dated April 5, 1965, in
dockets numbered 161, 222, and 224, and the interest on said funds;
and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said court to hear such
claims and to render judgment and decree thereon making such
division of such funds and the interest on such funds, as may be
just and fair in law and equity, between the Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation and its constituent tribal groups on the
one hand, and the Yakima Tribes of Indians of the Yakima
Reservation and its constituent tribal groups on the other hand.
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