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[CITE: 25USC672]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XXVII--UTE INDIANS OF UTAH
 
Sec. 672. Division of trust funds; ratification of resolution; 
        crediting of shares; release of United States from liability in 
        certain cases
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to divide 
the trust funds belonging to the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and 
deposited in the United States Treasury pursuant to section 399 of this 
title, section 315j of title 43, and the Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 
1211), as amended, including the interest thereon, by crediting 60 per 
centum to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, 
consisting of the Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White River Utes, and 40 per 
centum to the Southern Utes, consisting of the Southern Utes of the 
Southern Ute Reservation and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 
Reservation. The resolution adopted June 1, 1950, by the members of the 
Uncompahgre, White River, and Uintah bands of Ute Indians compromising 
and settling all existing controversies between themselves as to 
ownership and distribution of any judgments which may be obtained 
against the United States and as to ownership of land within the Uintah 
and Ouray Reservation and income issuing therefrom by providing that the 
same shall become the tribal property of all the Indians of the Ute 
Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation without regard to band 
derivation is ratified, approved and confirmed. The funds apportioned to 
the Southern Utes under this section shall be divided between the 
Southern Utes of the Southern Ute Reservation and the Ute Mountain Tribe 
of the Ute Mountain Reservation as agreed between said tribes. The 
shares of the respective groups shall be credited to the existing 
accounts established pursuant to sections 155 and 161a to 161d of this 
title. None of the funds involved herein shall be credited or 
distributed to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, 
consisting of the Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White Rivers Utes, until the 
Uncompahgre and White River Banks present to the Secretary of the 
Interior a release satisfactory to him, relieving the United States of 
any liability resulting from the inclusion of the Uintah Band in the 
disposition or use of said trust funds.

(Aug. 21, 1951, ch. 338, Sec. 2, 65 Stat. 194.)

                       References in Text

    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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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