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[CITE: 25USC1223]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
 SUBCHAPTER LXIV -- CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF WEAS, PIANKASHAWS, PEORIAS, 
              AND KASKASKIAS: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 1223. Distribution of shares


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

    Except as provided is subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary 
shall distribute a share payable to a living enrollee directly to such 
enrollee and the Secretary shall distribute a per capita share of 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, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary 
determines will adequately protect the best interest of such person.

(Pub. L. 91-364, Sec. 3, July 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 688.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1224 of this title.
