Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 3 — Agreements with Indians
§ 81b. Continuation of contracts with attorneys containing limitation of time where suits have been filed
Statutory text
Any existing valid contract made and approved prior to , pursuant to any Act of Congress by any tribe, band, or group of Indians with an attorney or attorneys for the rendition of services in the prosecution of claims against the United States under authority of which suit or suits have been filed, and which contains a limitation of time for the completion of the services to be performed may be continued in full force unless a subsequent contract dealing with the same subject matter has been made and approved.
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. 74–851 § 2 · 49 Stat. 1984
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 81b
(June 26, 1936, ch. 851, § 2, 49 Stat. 1984.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 26, 1936, ch. 851, § 2, 49 Stat. 1984.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. Any existing valid contract heretofore made and approved pursuant to any Act of Congress by any tribe, band, or group of Indians with an attorney or attorneys for the rendition of services in the prosecution of claims against the United States under authority of which suit or suits have been filed, and which contains a limitation of time for the completion of the services to be performed may be continued in full force unless a subsequent contract dealing with the same subject matter has been made and approved.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 26, 1936, ch. 851, § 2, 49 Stat. 1984.)