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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 781. Distribution of funds
(a) Allotment equalization payments
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to use
any funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the
credit of the Creek Nation to complete allotment equalization
payments to persons with claims thereto that were filed and
adjudicated in accordance with the provisions of section 18 in the
Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. 3, 24.)
(b) Per capita payments to enrollees, heirs, or legatees
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to distribute per
capita to the members of the Creek Nation whose names appear on the
final rolls approved under the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat.
137), or to their heirs or legatees, any funds heretofore or
hereafter deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the
credit of the Creek Nation that are not used for the purposes of
subsection (a) of this section and that are not needed, in the
judgment of the Secretary, for other tribal purposes except the
proceeds of any final judgment entered in Docket No. 21, pending
before the Indian Claims Commission, in which the Creek Nation
(Oklahoma) is plaintiff, and McGhee et al., on behalf of the Creek
Nation East of the Mississippi are intervenors, and the United
States is defendant.
(c) Judgment payments
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to
distribute among the persons entitled thereto the funds
appropriated by chapter XII of the Third Supplemental Appropriation
Act, 1952 (66 Stat. 101, 121), in payment of the judgment entered
by the Indian Claims Commission in favor of the Loyal Creek Band or
Group of Creek Indians et al., Docket No. 1. Such funds shall be
paid to those persons whose names appear on the payroll prepared
pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1903 (32 Stat. 982, 994), by J.
Blair Schoenfelt, United States Indian Agent, or to their heirs or
legatees, on a pro rata basis in proportion to the amounts
appearing opposite their names on such payroll.
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