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[CITE: 25USC913]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
      SUBCHAPTER XLII--QUAPAW TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 913. Distribution of shares


(a) Payments to enrollees, next of kin, or legatees

    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary 
shall distribute a share payable to a living enrollee directly to such 
enrollee, and the Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a 
deceased enrollee directly to his next of kin or legatees as determined 
by the laws of the place of domicile of the decedent, upon proof of 
death and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary, whose findings upon 
such proof shall be final and conclusive.

(b) Payments to minors or persons under legal disability

    A share payable to a person under twenty-one years of age or to a 
person under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with the laws 
applicable to such person in the place of his domicile, or in the 
discretion of the Secretary to the natural parent or guardian of such 
person.

(Pub. L. 86-97, Sec. 3, July 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 222.)
