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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 883. Osage Tribe; disposition of judgment fund
(a) Persons eligible for allotments; excepted sums
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to
distribute per capita to all persons whose names appear on the roll
of the Osage Tribe of Indians approved by the Secretary of the
Interior April 11, 1908, pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1906 (34
Stat. 539), all funds which were appropriated by the Act of January
8, 1971 (84 Stat. 1981), in satisfaction of a judgment that was
obtained by the Osage Nation of Indians in the Indian Claims
Commission against the United States in dockets numbered 105, 106,
107, and 108, together with interest thereon, except the sum of
$1,000,000 and any funds that revert to the Osage Tribe and except
the amount allowed for attorney fees and expenses and the cost of
distribution.
(b) Education program; advances, expenditures, etc., for financing
such program
The sum of $1,000,000 plus any funds that revert to the Osage
Tribe may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for the
purpose of financing an education program of benefit to the Osage
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, such program to be administered as
authorized by the Secretary of the Interior.
(c) Withdrawal of funds for payment of costs of carrying out
provisions
The Secretary of the Interior may make appropriate withdrawals
from the judgment funds and interest thereon, using interest funds
first, to pay costs incident to carrying out the provisions of
sections 883 to 883d of this title.
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