Volume 84
Public Law 91–413
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Yakima Tribes in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 47–A, 162, and consolidated 47 and 164, and for other purposes.
Approved September 25, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Yakima Tribes in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 47–A, 162, and consolidated 47 and 164, 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
Yakima Tribes, Yakima Reservation.
Judgment funds, disposition.
appropriated by the Act of October 31, 1965 (79 Stat. 1133, 1152), to pay judgments to the Yakima Tribes of the Yakima Reservation in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 47–A and 162, and by the Act of July 22, 1969 (83 Stat. 49), in consolidated dockets 47 and 164, together with interests thereon, after payment of attorney fees and litigation expenses, may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 2.
Any part of such funds that may be distributed per capita
Tax exemption.
under the provisions of this Act shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax; and any per capita share payable to a person under twenty-one years of age or to a person under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary determines will adequately protect the best interest of such persons.
Approved September 25, 1970.