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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 671. Use of funds of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation for expenditure and per capita payments; regulations applicable to loans; restriction on attorney fees
Notwithstanding any other provision of existing law, the tribal
funds now on deposit or hereafter deposited in the United States
Treasury to the credit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and
Ouray Reservation may be expended or advanced for such purposes,
including per capita payments, as may be designated by the Tribal
Business Committee of said tribe and approved by the Secretary of
the Interior: Provided, That the aggregate amount of the
expenditures and advances authorized by this section exclusive of
per capita payments from interest shall not exceed 33 1/3 per
centum of such tribal funds now on deposit: Provided further, That
with the exception of a $1,000 per capita payment which is
authorized, no per capita payment shall be approved by the
Secretary of the Interior from the principal of any judgment
obtained under the Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat.
1209), as amended, without further legislation: Provided further,
That any funds advanced for loans by the tribe to individual
Indians or associations of Indians shall be subject to regulations
established for the making of loans from the revolving loan fund
authorized by section 470 of this title: Provided further, That no
part of the funds authorized to be expended or advanced by this
section shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or
attorney on account of services rendered in connection with the
preparation or prosecution of the suit or suits in the Court of
Claims which resulted in any or all of the judgments handed down by
said court on July 13, 1950, unless approved by the said court in
the proceeding now pending before said court for the adjudication
of attorneys' fees, or to any agent or attorney on account of any
contract for services rendered or to be rendered in the preparation
of any suit against the United States.
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