25 U.S.C. § 120 — Per capita payments to enrolled members of Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes

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The Secretary of the Interior can pay enrolled Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal members up to $200 a year. This money comes from tribal funds the government holds beyond what's already budgeted. Heirs of eligible members can receive these payments too.

This section lets the Secretary of the Interior pay up to $200 a year, per person, to enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Oklahoma who are legally entitled to a share of the tribes' funds — or to their lawful heirs if the member has died. The Secretary sets the rules for how these payments work. The money must come from funds the United States government already holds for the tribes' benefit, but only the amount left over after covering the spending already authorized by annual appropriations or other existing law.

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The Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized to make per capita payments of not to exceed $200 annually to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma, entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, of all the available money held by the Government of the United States for the benefit of said tribes in excess of that required for expenditures authorized by annual appropriations made therefrom or by existing law.

Source credit: (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 18, 41 Stat. 427.)

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1920Enacted · Act of Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75 · 41 Stat. 427

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