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[CITE: 25USC586]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
      SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 586. Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians; payment to 
        enrollees; heirs or legatees; trust for minors and persons under 
        legal disability
        
    The funds apportioned to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians, 
less attorney's fees, and expenses due the attorneys representing the 
Northwestern Band under an approved contract, effective March 1, 1968, 
shall be placed to its credit in the United States Treasury and shall be 
distributed equally to the members whose names appear on the final roll 
and in accordance with the provisions of sections 581 to 590 of this 
title.
    (a) The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the 
number of persons listed on the proposed roll published as hereinbefore 
provided and the number of persons on whose behalf an appeal has been 
taken to the Secretary contesting omission from such proposed roll. The 
share of those persons excluded from the final roll by reason of the 
decision of the Secretary on appeal shall be distributed equally to the 
persons included on the final roll.
    (b) The Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a living 
enrollee directly to such enrollee. The per capita share of a deceased 
enrollee shall be paid 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. A share or interest therein payable 
to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than twenty-one 
years of age or who are under legal disability shall be paid in 
accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, 
as the Secretary determines appropriate to protect the best interest of 
such persons.

(Pub. L. 92-206, Sec. 6, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 738.)
