Public Law 92–586

the Secretary

Indians.

Osage Tribe, Okla.

Judgment funds, disposition.

of the Interior is authorized and directed to distribute per capita to all persons whose names appear on the roll of the Osage Tribe of Indians approved by the Secretary of the Interior April 11, 1908, pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. 539), all funds which were appropriated by the Act of January 8, 1971 (84 Stat. 1981), in satisfaction of a judgment that was obtained by the Osage Nation of Indians in the Indian Claims Commission against the United States in dockets numbered 105,106,107, and 108, together with interest thereon, except the sum of $1,000,000 and any funds that revert to the Usage Tribe and except the amount allowed for attorney fees and expenses and the cost of distribution.

The sum of $1,000,000 plus any funds that revert to the Osage

Education program.

Tribe may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for the purpose of financing an education program or other socioeconomic programs of benefit to the Osage Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, such programs to be administered as authorized by the Secretary of the Interior.

The Secretary of the Ulterior may make appropriate withdrawals

Fund withdrawals.

from the judgment funds and interest thereon, using interest funds first, to pay costs incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this

Distribution.

section, a share or proportional share payable to a living original Osage allottee shall be paid to such allottee.

A share of a deceased Osage allottee having died prior to or after the passage of this Act shall be distributed to his heirs of Osage Indian blood pursuant to an order determining heirs by the Secretary of the Interior or a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, and such distributions by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final and conclusive. In the event the heirs oi Osage Indian blood of an Osage Indian having died prior to or after the passage of this Act have not been determined by the Secretary of the Interior or a court, of competent jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, such share shall be distributed to the heirs of Osage Indian blood upon the filing of proof of death and inheritance in accordance with the Oklahoma law of intestate succession in a form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior whose findings and determinations upon such proof shall be final and conclusive: Provided, That when a person of Osage Indian

Exception.

blood receives an amount totaling less than $20 from one or more shares of one or more Osage allottees, that amount shall not be distributed to the individual, but will revert to the Osage Tribe.

A share or proportional share payable to a person of Osage Indian blood under eighteen years of age and any person under guardianship pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction notwithstanding the fact he has received a certificate of competency

Regulations.

shall be disbursed under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.