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Volume 47

Public Law 72–93

To authorize an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. L. 484).

Approved February 16, 1933

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize an appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. L. 484).

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

That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States of America not otherwise appropriated, $19,357 to pay certain individual enrolled Indians under the Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, and Rosebud Sioux Agencies, in full settlement of such claims against the Government, the amounts which they have been awarded by the Secretary of the

Vol. 45, p. 484.

Interior under the Act of Congress of May 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 484):

Proviso.

Attorneys’ services.

Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to determine what attorney or attorneys have rendered services of value in behalf of said Indians and to pay such attorney or attorneys on such findings when appropriation is available the reasonable

Limitation.

value of such services, not to exceed 10 per centum of the recovery on any individual claim, which payment shall be in full settlement for all services rendered by such attorney or attorneys to said claimants.

Approved, February 16, 1933.

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