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[CITE: 25USC609]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                     SUBCHAPTER XVII--YAKIMA TRIBES
 
Sec. 609. Action to determine title to judgment fund; claim of 
        Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; jurisdiction of 
        Court of Claims
        
    The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, acting through 
the chairman of its business council, and the Yakima Tribes of Indians 
of the Yakima Reservation, acting through the chairman of its tribal 
council, for and on behalf of said tribes and each and all their 
constituent tribal groups, are each hereby authorized to commence or 
defend in the United States Court of Claims an action against each other 
making claims to a share in the funds that are on deposit in the 
Treasury of the United States to pay a judgment of the Indian Claims 
Commission dated April 5, 1965, in dockets numbered 161, 222, and 224, 
and the interest on said funds; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred 
upon said court to hear such claims and to render judgment and decree 
thereon making such division of such funds and the interest on such 
funds, as may be just and fair in law and equity, between the 
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and its constituent 
tribal groups on the one hand, and the Yakima Tribes of Indians of the 
Yakima Reservation and its constituent tribal groups on the other hand.

(Pub. L. 90-278, Sec. 1, Mar. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 69.)

                       References in Text

    The United States Court of Claims, referred to in text, and the 
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals were merged effective 
Oct. 1, 1982, into a new United States Court of Appeals for the Federal 
Circuit by Pub. L. 97-164, Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 25, which also created 
a United States Claims Court [now United States Court of Federal Claims] 
that inherited the trial jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See 
sections 48, 171 et seq., 791 et seq., and 1491 et seq. of Title 28, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
    The Indian Claims Commission, referred to in text, was terminated on 
Sept. 30, 1978. See Codification note set out under former section 70 et 
seq. of this title.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of act Aug. 9, 1946, ch. 933, 60 
Stat. 968, which comprises this subchapter.
