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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1975

PUBLIC LAW 94-189—DEC. 31, 1975

89 STAT. 1093

Public Law 94-189 94th Congress An Act To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay certain Indian Claims Commission judgments in favor of the Sac and Fox Indians, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following funds: (1) the funds appropriated by the Act of October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1190, 1198), to pay a judgment to the Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma and the Sac and F o x Tribe of Mississippi in Iowa in Indian Claims Commission docket 219; (2) the funds a p p r o p r i a t e d by the Acts of July 6, 1970 (84 Stat. 376), and March 21, 1972 (86 Stat. 86), to pay judgments to the Sac and Fox Nation in Indian Claims Commission dockets 153 and 135, respectively; (3) any funds which are now or which may hereafter be appropriated to satisfy any final award of the Indian Claims Commission to the Sac and F o x Nation in dockets 158, 231, and 83; and (4) the amount of $20,421.78 from funds appropriated by the Act of June 12, 1975 (89 Stat. 193, 194), to pay a judgment to the Sac and F o x Nation in Indian Claims Commission docket 95, shall, together with interest earned thereon and after the payment of attorney fees and other litigation expenses, be distributed as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. (a) The funds in docket 219 shall be divided between the Sac and F o x Tribe of Oklahoma and the Sac and F o x Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, and the funds in dockets 153 and 135, 158, 231, 83 and that portion of docket 95 as provided in paragraph (4) of section 1 hereof, shall be divided among the Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma, the Sac and F o x Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, and the Sac and F o x Tribe of the Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, on the basis of the relative numbers of members of each tribe who were enrolled on or who were entitled to be enrolled on the census rolls of each tribe as of January 1, 1937. (b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 2(a) of this Act, each Sac and F o x Tribe shall have not to exceed ninety days from the date of this Act in which to identify those persons, living or deceased, who were inadvertently omitted from the January 1, 1937, census roll of the tribe. (c) The provisions of section 2(a) of this Act shall apply only to the division of the judgment funds described in section 1 of this Act, between or among the respective Sac and F o x Tribes, as appropriate, and nothing in this section shall be construed as applicable to the payment per capita of any portion of the share of any Sac and Fox Tribe that may be so distributed. SEC. 3. After the judgment funds are divided as provided in section 2(a) of this Act, the sum of $5,000, together with appropriate interest thereon for not less than one day, shall be deducted from the share of the judgment funds that is due the Sac and Fox Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska from the judgment in docket 153, and shall be divided between the Sac and F o x Tribes of l o vva and of Oklahoma

57-194 O - 77 - 73

Dec. 31. 1975 [H.R. 4016]

Indians. Sac and Fox Indians. Judgement funds.

Distribution.

Ninety-day identification period.