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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians

§ 120. Per capita payments to enrolled members of Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized to make per capita payments of not to exceed $200 annually to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma, entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, of all the available money held by the Government of the United States for the benefit of said tribes in excess of that required for expenditures authorized by annual appropriations made therefrom or by existing law.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 66–75 § 18 · 41 Stat. 292

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 120

    (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 18, 41 Stat. 427.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 18, 41 Stat. 427.)

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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

(Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 18, 41 Stat. 427.)

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