§ 121. Payment of share of tribal funds to helpless Indians

Statutory text

The pro rata share of any Indian who is mentally or physically incapable of managing his or her own affairs may be withdrawn from the Treasury in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and expended for the benefit of such Indian under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the said Secretary may prescribe: Provided, That said funds of any Indian shall not be withdrawn from the Treasury until needed by the Indian and upon his application and when approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

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.

1907
Pub. L. 59–2523 § 2 · 34 Stat. 1221
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 121
Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 2, 34 Stat. 1221
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 2, 34 Stat. 1221
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Payment to helpless, etc., Indians. pay any Indian who is blind, crippled, decrepit, or helpless from old age, disease, or accident, his or her share, or any portion thereof, of the tribal trust funds in the United States Treasury belonging to the tribe of which such Indian is a member, and of any other money which may hereafter be placed in the Treasury for the credit of such tribe and susceptible of division among its members, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as he may prescribe.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

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. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1907–1916 · 2 acts

1907Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 2, 34 Stat. 1221
1916May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 1, 39 Stat. 128.

Show as published

(Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 2, 34 Stat. 1221; May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 1, 39 Stat. 128.)