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Public Law 69–572

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to establish a trust fund for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma and making provision for the same.

Approved June 12, 1926

Statutory text

Joint Resolution

Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to establish a trust fund for the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians in Oklahoma and making provision for the same.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to set aside and administer as a trust fund for the benefit of the enrolled members of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians and their unallotted children in Oklahoma that part of any moneys received or to be received under the Act approved March 4, 1923 (Forty-second

Source of.

Vol. 42, p. 1448.

Statutes at Large, page 1448), and any Act thereby adopted or made applicable, derived from the south half of Red River in Oklahoma which inures to the Federal Government by virtue of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the suit of the State of Oklahoma versus the State of Texas, which decision was rendered May 1, 1922, being the entire amount received from this source, except such part as may have been awarded to successful claimants under said Act approved March 4, 1923 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 1448), and except 37½ per centum of the royalties

Payment to Oklahoma in lieu taxes upon tribal funds.

Post, p. 941.

derived from such source, which shall be paid to the State of Oklahoma in lieu of all State and local taxes upon said tribal funds and shall be expended by the State in the same manner as if received under section 35 of the Act approved February 25, 1920 (Forty-first

Vol. 41, p. 450.

Statutes at Large, page 437).

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to administer

Administration and disbursement.

Post, p. 1369.

and disburse the moneys which are hereby appropriated, subject to the requirements of existing law, and to prescribe needful rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.

Approved, June 12, 1926.

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