Volume 86
Public Law 92–295
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Jicarllla Apache Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 22–A. and for other purposes.
Approved May 16, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Jicarllla Apache Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 22–A. 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
Indians.
Jicarilla Apache Tribe, N. Hex.
Judgment funds.
appropriated to pay a judgment to the Jicarilla Apache Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 22—A, together with the interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees and other 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.
Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than eighteen years of age or who are under a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons.
Sec. 3.
None of the funds distributed per capita under the provisions
Tax exemption.
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
Sec. 4.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules
Rules and regulations.
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved May 16, 1972.