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[CITE: 25USC1153]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
   SUBCHAPTER LVII--UPPER AND LOWER CHEHALIS TRIBES: DISTRIBUTION OF 
                              JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 1153. Payments to minors and persons under legal 
        disabilities; escheats
        
    Sums payable to enrollees or to their heirs or legatees who are less 
than twenty-one years of age or who are under a legal disability shall 
be held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior with use limited to 
emergency medical care and direct educational expenses, until such minor 
becomes of age or disability ceases. Proportional shares of heirs or 
legatees amounting to $5 or less shall not be distributed, and shall 
escheat to the United States. In the event that the sum of money 
reserved by the Secretary to pay the costs of distributing the 
individual shares exceeds the amount actually necessary to accomplish 
this purpose, the money remaining shall also be distributed per capita 
unless individual shares would have a value of less than $5. Individual 
shares or proportional shares of heirs or legatees amounting to $5 or 
less shall not be distributed, but shall escheat to the United States.

(Pub. L. 90-114, Sec. 3, Oct. 24, 1967, 81 Stat. 335.)
