PUBLIC LAW 97-408—JAN. 3, 1983
96 STAT. 2035
Public Law 97-408 97th Congress An Act To provide for the use and distribution of funds awarded to the Blackfeet and Gros •Ventre Tribes of Indians and the Assiniboine Tribe of Fort Belknap Indian Community, in certain dockets of the United States Court of Claims and of funds awarded to the Papago Tribe of Arizona in dockets numbered 345 and 102 of the Indian Claims Commission, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the funds appropriated in accordance with section 1302 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act (31 U.S.C. 724a), on January 23, 1981, in satisfaction of a judgment awarded to the Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes of Indians and the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community in dockets numbered 250-A and 279-C of the United States Court of Claims; on July 16, 1981, in satisfaction of a judgment awarded to the Gros Ventre Tribe of Fort Belknap Indian Community in docket numbered 309-74 of the United States Court of Claims; and 26.8 per centum of the funds appropriated on June 30, 1981, in satisfaction of a judgment awarded to the Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes in docket numbered 649-80L of the United States Court of Claims, less attorney fees and litigation expenses, but including all accrued interest and investment income, shall be distributed and used as herein provided. SEC. 2. The funds appropriated to the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, in docket numbered 279-C, in an original amount of $400,000, shall be held in trust and invested by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter "Secretary") for the benefit of the members of the Blackfeet Tribe. The governing body of such tribe is authorized to utilize such funds on a budgetary basis, subject to approval of the Secretary, for governmental operations and social and economic programs. SEC. 3. The funds appropriated to the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, Montana, in docket numbered 250-A, in the original amount of $2,170,013 shall be used and distributed as follows: Provided, That no person shall be eligible to share in more than one award in his own right: (a) Eighty per centum of such funds shall be distributed in the form of per capita payments (in sums as equal as possible) to all persons duly enrolled as Assiniboine members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community and born on or prior to, and living on, the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Twenty per centum of such funds shall be held in trust and invested by the Secretary for the benefit of the members of the Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community. The treaty committee of such tribe is authorized to utilize such funds on a budgetary basis, subject to approval of the Secretary, for social and economic programs. Such programs may include, but are not limited to, land acquisitions and the development of local reservation projects.
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Jan. 3, 1983 [S. 1986]
Indizms. Judgment funds, distribution to certain tribes.
Blackfeet Tribe of Montana.
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, Montana.
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