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Public Law 92–439

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the disposition of judgment funds now on deposit to the credit of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma”, approved October 31, 1967 (81 Stat. 337).

Approved September 29, 1972

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the disposition of judgment funds now on deposit to the credit of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma”, approved October 31, 1967 (81 Stat. 337).

Be it enacted by the Senate and Howie of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That subsections (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the disposition of judgment funds now on deposit to the credit of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma”, approved October 31, 1967 (SI Stat. 337), are amended to read as follows:

“(a)

A share payable to an enrollee not Jess than eighteen years of age shall be paid directly in one payment to such enrollee, except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section;

“(b)

A share payable to an enrollee dying after the date of this Act shall be distributed to his heirs or legatees upon the filing of proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, or his authorized representative, whose findings and determinations upon such proof shall he final and conclusive: Provided, That if a share of such deceased enrollee, or a portion, thereof, is payable to an heir or legatee under eighteen years of age or to an heir or legatee under legal disability other than because of age, the same shall Ire paid and held in trust pursuant to subsection (c) of this section;

“(c)

A share or proportional share payable to an enrollee or person under eighteen years of age or to an enrollee or prison under legal disability other than because of age shall be paid and held in trust for such enrollee or person pursuant to a trust agreement to be made and entered into by and between the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, as grantor, and a national banking association located in the State of Oklahoma, as Trustee, which trust agreement shall be authorized and approved by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to approve amendments to trust agreements entered into pursuant to the Act of October 31, 1967 (81 Stat. 337), to permit the distribution of assets to, and the termination of trusts for, minor beneficiaries, not under other legal disability, who have attained or who shall hereafter attain the age of eighteen years.”

Approved September 29, 1972.

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