PUBLIC LAW 100-581—NOV. 1, 1988
102 STAT. 2943
(1) Each of the parties shall execute such releases, conveyances, or other documents as the Secretary of the Interior determines are necessary to carry out this Act by settling the claims and transferring interests in and clearing titles to the land involved. The execution of such documents on behalf of the Blackfeet Tribe is hereby authorized and is deemed approved under Resolution 250-87 of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council and such documents may be executed by the Chairman. The Secretary of the Interior may approve and execute on behalf of the United States such documents as are necessary to carry out this Act. (2) The Blackfeet Tribe shall transfer its interests in the remaining approximately two hundred and forty acres of land acquired by the Tribe on October 28, 1946, to the Secretary of the Interior who shall take the interests in trust for John Benedict Renville. (3) Mary Lois Peterson Munoz shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior all of her interests in the approximately two hundred and eighty acres of land which had been acquired by the Blackfeet Tribe on October 28, 1946, to the Secretary of the Interior who shall take the interests in trust for John Benedict Renville. (4) A final order has been entered in the civil action entitled John Benedict Renville v. Blackfeet Tribe of Indians, et al.. No. CV-84-41-6F, in the United States District Court for the District of Montana dismissing with prejudice all claims, crossclaims, counterclaims, third-party claims, and all other claims arising out of such civil action. (d) The land and the interests therein acquired in trust by the Secretary of the Interior under this title shall be subject to the laws that would apply if the sale of October 28, 1946, had not taken place. (e) The amounts paid under subsection (a) of this title to John Benedict Renville are subject to section 7 of the Act of October 19, 1973 (87 Stat. 468; 25 U.S.C. 1407), as amended. (f) The amounts paid under subsection (a) of this Act to Mary Lois Peterson Munoz shall be considered as funds for condemnation proceedings as provided for in section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code. (g) No part of any amount paid under this Act in excess of 10 percent of such amount, including the value of the land returned, shall be paid or delivered to, or received by, any agent or attorney on account of services rendered John Benedict Renville in connection with any claim settled under this Act and the same shall be unlawful, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Violation of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of no more than $1,000. (h) The Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be made an appraisal of the value of the lands described in subsection (b) as of the date of enactment of this Act; and the sums paid to the Blackfeet Tribe and Mary Lois Peterson Munoz under subsection (a) of this Act shall not exceed such appraisal values, plus a reasonable attorney's fee, not to exceed 10 percent of such award, any contract to the contrary notwithstanding. Violation of this subsection shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of no more than $1,000,
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