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[CITE: 25USC1118]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
 SUBCHAPTER LIV--MIAMI INDIANS OF INDIANA AND OKLAHOMA: DISTRIBUTION OF 
                              JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 1118. Distribution of shares


(a) Payments to enrollees, next of kin, or legatees

    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary 
shall distribute a per capita share payable to a living enrollee 
directly to such enrollee, and the Secretary shall distribute a per 
capita share payable to a deceased enrollee directly to his heirs or 
legatees upon proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the 
Secretary, whose findings upon such proof shall be final and conclusive.

(b) Payments to minors or persons under legal disability

    A share payable to a person under twenty-one years of age or to a 
person under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such 
procedures as the Secretary determines will adequately protect the best 
interests of such persons.

 (Pub. L. 89-659, Sec. 8, Oct. 14, 1966, 80 Stat. 910.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1116, 1117 of this title.
