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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

102 STAT. 2942

43 USC 1613 note.

Claims. Garret White. Many Whitehorse. John Benedict Renville. Mary Lois Peterson Munoz.

PUBLIC LAW 100-581—NOV. 1, 1988

acquisition of part or all of the allottee's allotment for a public purpose is— (1) deemed a cash payment in lieu of an allotment for purposes of this subsection; (2) deemed a right under subsection (a) of this section; and (3) subject to the Act of March 2, 1931, ch. 374, 46 Stat. 1471 (25 U.S.C. 409a) and the undesignated provision added to the Act of Febraury 8, 1887, ch. 119, by the Act of June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 327 (25 U.S.C. 410).". SEC. 217. The Secretary of the Interior shall pay to the Tiospa Zina Tribal School from lapsed balances of funds appropriated for the Bureau of Indian Affairs for fiscal year 1987 the amount that the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs of the Bureau determines that the School should have received that year for start-up costs. SEC. 218. Subsection (a)(1) of section 2 of Public Law 94-204 (89 Stat. 1148), as amended by section 1411(a) of Public Law 96-487 (94 Stat. 2497), is amended by inserting in the first paragraph after "resources of lands" and before "withdrawn" the following: ", including wildlife proceeds received between the date of withdrawal and the date of conveyance from harvests on lands conveyed pursuant to the Act,". TITLE III—TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN LANDS HELD IN TRUST FOR THE BLACKFEET TRIBE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES SEC. 301. (a) As compensation for and in settlement of all claims arising as the result of alleged errors in the Secretary of the Interior's approval of purported conveyances of land involved in the will of Garret White (also known as Many Whitehorse), upon certification by the Secretary of the Interior that the conditions precedent in subsection (c) have been met, the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay as a settlement under 1304(a)(l) of title 31, United States Ckxle, not to exceed the following sums— (1) $50,000.00 to John Benedict Renville of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; (2) $58,500.00 to be held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior for the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana; (3) $127,000.00 to Mary Lois Peterson Munoz of Cut Bank, Montana; and (4) $165,535.00, to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for John Benedict Renville, less attorney fees paid to the attorney for John Benedict Renville as provided in this title. (b) The payment and acceptance of such compensation shall be in full satisfaction of all claims that the receiving party has against the United States or any employee or officer thereof, and against any other party, in connection with the purported sale of some five hundred and forty acres of trust land involved in the will of Garret White to the Blackfeet Tribe approved October 28, 1946, the purported exchange of some two hundred and eighty acres of the land by the Tribe for other land, and the purported acquisition of the two hundred and eighty acres by Mary Lois Peterson Munoz. (c) E^ch of the following is a condition precedent to any payment under subsection (a) of this Act: