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[CITE: 25USC671]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XXVII--UTE INDIANS OF UTAH
 
Sec. 671. Use of funds of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and 
        Ouray Reservation for expenditure and per capita payments; 
        regulations applicable to loans; restriction on attorney fees
        
    Notwithstanding any other provision of existing law, the tribal 
funds now on deposit or hereafter deposited in the United States 
Treasury to the credit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray 
Reservation may be expended or advanced for such purposes, including per 
capita payments, as may be designated by the Tribal Business Committee 
of said tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, 
That the aggregate amount of the expenditures and advances authorized by 
this section exclusive of per capita payments from interest shall not 
exceed 33\1/3\ per centum of such tribal funds now on deposit: Provided 
further, That with the exception of a $1,000 per capita payment which is 
authorized, no per capita payment shall be approved by the Secretary of 
the Interior from the principal of any judgment obtained under the 
Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1209), as amended, without 
further legislation: Provided further, That any funds advanced for loans 
by the tribe to individual Indians or associations of Indians shall be 
subject to regulations established for the making of loans from the 
revolving loan fund authorized by section 470 of this title: Provided 
further, That no part of the funds authorized to be expended or advanced 
by this section shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent 
or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with the 
preparation or prosecution of the suit or suits in the Court of Claims 
which resulted in any or all of the judgments handed down by said court 
on July 13, 1950, unless approved by the said court in the proceeding 
now pending before said court for the adjudication of attorneys' fees, 
or to any agent or attorney on account of any contract for services 
rendered or to be rendered in the preparation of any suit against the 
United States.

(Aug. 21, 1951, ch. 338, Sec. 1, 65 Stat. 193; June 29, 1954, ch. 412, 
68 Stat. 321.)

                       References in Text

    The Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938, referred to in text, is act 
June 28, 1938, ch. 776, 52 Stat. 1209, which was not classified to the 
Code.
    The Court of Claims, referred to in text, and the 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.


                               Amendments

    1954--Act June 29, 1954, excepted from 33\1/3\ per centum limitation 
on expenditures and advances, per capita payments made from interest.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 676a of this title.
