Volume 81
Public Law 90–60
To provide for the distribution of judgment funds among members of the Confederated Bands of the Ute Indian Tribes.
Approved August 1, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the distribution of judgment funds among members of the Confederated Bands of the Ute Indian Tribes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to divide the trust fund belonging to the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated by
the Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1965, and deposited in the United States Treasury pursuant to the final judgment entered in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 327, including the interest thereon, by crediting 60 per centum to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation and the Ute Distribution Corporation, 20 per centum to the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, and 20 per centum for the Southern Ute Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation. The portion of the trust fund, upon its division as herein directed, credited to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation to the Ute Distribution Corporation and to the Southern Ute Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, shall be available for use in accordance with existing authorization for use of funds of the tribes and the Ute Distribution Corporation, including the Act of
25 USC 676, 677 et seq.
August 21, 1951 (65 Stat. 193), as amended, the Act of June 28, 1954 (68 Stat. 300), and the Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat 868), as amended. Any part of such funds that may be distributed to the members of the tribe shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
Approved August 1, 1967.