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Public Law 68–215

To provide for the addition of the names of certain persons to the final roll of the Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.

Approved May 31, 1924

Statutory text

An Act

To provide for the addition of the names of certain persons to the final roll of the Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to add to the final roll of the Indians of the (Jocko) Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, approved January 22, 1920, under the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 591), and the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes, page 9), the names of the following persons, descendants of the Confederated Flathead Tribes of Indians: Lucy Contesto, Mary Sophie Contesto, Clifford Gendron, Adolph Squeque, Peter Joseph Chalwain, Dennis McLeod, Margaret Louise Ashley, Veona Carlson, Lois May Houle, Norbert Marage, Eva Matilda Matt, Eneas Isadore Woodcock, Wilton Sidney Worley, Harry Leon Beauchaine, Henry Louzeau, and Louise Isaac.

Per capita payment from tribal funds.

The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to pay to each of the persons named a sum equal to that heretofore paid per capita to those whose names were on the approved roll, such payments to be made from any tribal funds in the Treasury to the credit of the Flathead Indians.

Approved, May 31, 1924.

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