PUBLIC LAW 94-540—OCT. 18, 1976
90 STAT. 2503
Public Law 94-540 94th Congress An Act To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 40-K, and for other purposes.
Oct. 18, 1976 [S. 1659]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstand- Grand River ing any other provision of law, the funds appropriated by the Act of Band of Ottawa Indians. October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1190, 1198), to pay a judgment to the Grand Judgment funds. River Band of Ottawa Indians in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 40-K, together with any interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees and litigation expenses and such expenses as may be necessary in effecting the provisions of this Act, shall be distributed as provided herein. SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a roll of all Requirements, persons of Grand River Band of Ottawa Indian blood who meet the following requirements for eligibility: (a) they were born on or prior to and were living on the date of this Act; and (b) their name or the name of a lineal ancestor from whom they claim eligibility appears as a Grand River Ottawa on the Ottawa and Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, Durant Roll of 1908, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, February 18, 1910, or on any available census rolls or other records acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior; (c) who possess Grand River Ottawa Indian blood of the degree or one-fourth or more; and (d) are citizens of the United States. SEC. 3. Applications for enrollment must be filed with the Great Applications. Lakes Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Ashland, Wisconsin, in the manner and within the time limits prescribed for that purpose. The determination of the Secretary of the Interior regarding the eligibility of an applicant shall be final. SEC. 4. The judgment funds shall be distributed per capita to the Distribution, persons whose names appear on the roll prepared in accordance with section 2 of this Act. SEC. 5. Sums payable to adult living enrollees or to adult heirs or legatees of deceased enrollees shall be paid directly to such persons. Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than eighteen years of age or who are under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trustees, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons.
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