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[CITE: 25USC971]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
    SUBCHAPTER XLVI--PONCA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA: TERMINATION OF FEDERAL 
                               SUPERVISION
 
Sec. 971. Membership roll; preparation; eligibility for 
        enrollment; protests against inclusion or omission from roll; 
        finality of determination; publication of roll; publication of 
        notice of agreement to division of assets; finality of roll
        
    The Secretary of the Interior shall, with the advice and assistance 
of the Ponca Tribe of Native Americans of Nebraska and pursuant to such 
regulations as he may prescribe, prepare a roll of the members of the 
tribe and record thereon persons whose names appeared on the census roll 
of April 1, 1934, and the supplement thereto of January 1, 1935, and 
their descendants of not less than one-quarter degree Indian blood of 
the Ponca Tribe, regardless of place of residence, who are living on 
September 5, 1962. He shall provide a reasonable opportunity for any 
person to protest against the inclusion or omission of any name on or 
from the roll and his decision on such protests shall be final and 
conclusive. After all protests are disposed of, the roll shall be 
published in the Federal Register. The Secretary shall thereupon give 
the adult members of the tribe whose names appear on the roll an 
opportunity to indicate their agreement or disagreement with a division 
of tribal assets in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter. 
If a majority of those indicating agreement or disagreement are 
favorable to such division, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal 
Register a notice of the fact and the roll prepared by him shall 
thereupon become final and sections 972 to 980 of this title shall 
become effective.

(Pub. L. 87-629, Sec. 1, Sept. 5, 1962, 76 Stat. 429.)
