Volume 48 · 979
Public Law 73–568
To amend an Act approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 555), entitled “An Act authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims.”
Approved June 18, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 555), entitled “An Act authorizing the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota to submit claims to the Court of Claims.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.
Vol. 44, p. 555, amended.
an Act approved May 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 555), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“Section 1.
That jurisdiction be, and is hereby, conferred upon
Adjudication of claims of, against United States.
the Court of Claims, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States by either party as in other cases, notwithstanding the lapse of time or statute of limitations, to hear, examine, and adjudicate and render judgment in any and all legal and equitable
Vol. 25, p. 642.
claims arising under or growing out of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat.L. 642), or arising under or growing out of any subsequent Act of Congress in relation to Indian Affairs which said Chippewa Indians of Minnesota may have against the United States, which claims have not heretofore been determined and adjudicated on their merits by the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United States. In any such suit or suits the plaintiffs,
Plaintiffs to include all who are entitled to share in final disposition of permanent fund.
the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, shall be considered as including and representing all those entitled to share in the final distribution of the permanent fund provided for by section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat.L. 642), and the agreements entered
Proviso.
Determining rolls for distributing Indian funds.
into thereunder: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to affect the powers of the Secretary of the Interior to determine the. roll or rolls of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota for the purpose of making any distribution of the permanent Chippewa fund or of the interest accruing thereon or of the proceeds of any judgments: Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed
Individual claims not admitted.
to authorize the submission to the Court of Claims for determination of any individual claim or claims to enrollment with the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota or to share in the interest or principal of the permanent Chippewa fund or in any funds hereafter acquired: Provided further, That the qualifications necessary to such
Qualifications to such enrollment.
enrollment shall not be changed or affected in any manner by the provisions of this Act.
Approved, June 18, 1934.