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[CITE: 25USC781]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                SUBCHAPTER XXXIV--CREEK NATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 781. Distribution of funds


(a) Allotment equalization payments

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to use any 
funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of 
the Creek Nation to complete allotment equalization payments to persons 
with claims thereto that were filed and adjudicated in accordance with 
the provisions of section 18 in the Act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. 3, 
24.)

(b) Per capita payments to enrollees, heirs, or legatees

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to distribute per capita 
to the members of the Creek Nation whose names appear on the final rolls 
approved under the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137), or to their 
heirs or legatees, any funds heretofore or hereafter deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Creek Nation that are 
not used for the purposes of subsection (a) of this section and that are 
not needed, in the judgment of the Secretary, for other tribal purposes 
except the proceeds of any final judgment entered in Docket No. 21, 
pending before the Indian Claims Commission, in which the Creek Nation 
(Oklahoma) is plaintiff, and McGhee et al., on behalf of the Creek 
Nation East of the Mississippi are intervenors, and the United States is 
defendant.

(c) Judgment payments

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to 
distribute among the persons entitled thereto the funds appropriated by 
chapter XII of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952 (66 Stat. 
101, 121), in payment of the judgment entered by the Indian Claims 
Commission in favor of the Loyal Creek Band or Group of Creek Indians et 
al., Docket No. 1. Such funds shall be paid to those persons whose names 
appear on the payroll prepared pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1903 (32 
Stat. 982, 994), by J. Blair Schoenfelt, United States Indian Agent, or 
to their heirs or legatees, on a pro rata basis in proportion to the 
amounts appearing opposite their names on such payroll.

(Aug. 1, 1955, ch. 444, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 431.)

                       References in Text

    Section 18 of the Act of June 30, 1919, referred to in subsec. (a), 
is act June 30, 1919, ch. 4, Sec. 18, 41 Stat. 21, which is set out as a 
note under section 375 of this title.
    Act of April 26, 1906, referred to in subsec. (b), is act Apr. 26, 
1906, ch. 1876, 34 Stat. 137, which is set out as a note under section 
355 of this title.
    The Indian Claims Commission, referred to in subsecs. (b) and (c), 
terminated Sept. 30, 1978. See Codification note set out under former 
section 70 et seq. of this title.
    Act of March 3, 1903, referred to in subsec. (c), is act Mar. 3, 
1903, ch. 994, 32 Stat. 982, 994, which was not classified to the Code.
    Chapter XII of the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, 
referred to in subsec. (c), is chapter XII of act June 5, 1952, ch. 369, 
66 Stat. 101, which was not classified to this Code.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 782, 783, 784, 785, 786 of 
this title.
