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Volume 46 · 1979

Private Law 71–116

To provide for discharging certain obligations of Peter R. Wadsworth, former superintendent and special disbursing agent of the Consolidated Chippewa Indian Agency.

Approved February 9, 1931

Statutory text

An Act

To provide for discharging certain obligations of Peter R. Wadsworth, former superintendent and special disbursing agent of the Consolidated Chippewa Indian Agency.

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

That there is

Peter R. Wadsworth.

Appropriation for crediting accounts of, due to bank failures.

hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,012.32, to be credited to the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians, for the purpose of discharging the obligations of Peter R. Wadsworth, former superintendent and special disbursing agent of the Consolidated Chippewa Indian Agency,

Placed to credit of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.

Cass Lake, Minnesota, arising out of the failure of the First National Bank of Saint Cloud, Minnesota, on June 17, 1925.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed

Unpaid claims of Indians to be settled.

to pay, out of the money so credited, the unpaid claims of all Chippewa Indians against such agency arising out of such bank failure.

Approved, February 9, 1931.

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