Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12C — Fort Peck Project
§ 833m. Determination of compensation for acquisition of Indian lands; funds payable from; disposition of moneys
Statutory text
As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under sections 833l to 833p of this title, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. The amounts due the tribe and the individual allottees or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available to the Department of the Interior for the Fort Peck project to the superintendent of the appropriate Indian agency, or such other officer as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, for credit on the books of such agency to the accounts of the tribe and the individuals concerned.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 79–199 § 2 · 60 Stat. 118
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 833m
(Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 2, 60 Stat. 118.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 2, 60 Stat. 118.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to he paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. The amounts due the tribe and the individual allottees or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available to the Department of the Interior for the Fort Peck project to the superintendent of the appropriate Indian agency, or such other officer as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, for credit on the books of such agency to the accounts of the tribe and the individuals concerned.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act , which comprises this chapter.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
(Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 2, 60 Stat. 118.)