Volume 73 · 221
Public Law 86–95
To authorize the use of funds arising from a judgment in favor of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe, and for other purposes.
Approved July 17, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the use of funds arising from a judgment in favor of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe that were appropriated to pay a judgment by the Indian Claims Commission dated May 6, 1958, and the interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees and expenses may be advanced or expended for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Any part of such funds that may be distributed per capita to the members of the tribe shall not be subject to Federal and State income tax.
Approved July 17, 1959.