Volume 47
Public Law 72–124
To authorize the Veterans’ Administration or other Federal agencies to turn over to superintendents of the Indian Service amounts due Indians who are under legal disability, or to estates of such deceased Indians.
Approved February 25, 1933
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Veterans’ Administration or other Federal agencies to turn over to superintendents of the Indian Service amounts due Indians who are under legal disability, or to estates of such deceased Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any money
Indian Service.
Amounts due Indians under legal disability, etc., to be paid designated superintendent for use of beneficiaries, or their heirs.
accruing from the Veterans’ Administration or other governmental agency to incompetent adult Indians, or minor Indians, who are recognized wards of the Federal Government, for whom no legal guardians or other fiduciaries have been appointed may be paid, in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, or other head of a governmental bureau or agency, having such funds for payment, to such superintendent or other bonded officer of the Indian Service as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate, for the use of such beneficiaries, or to be paid to or used for, the heirs of such deceased beneficiaries, to be handled and accounted for by him with other moneys under his control, in accordance with existing law and the regulations of the Department of the Interior.
Approved, February 25, 1933.