25 U.S.C. § 156 — Deposit of funds from sales of lands and property of Five Civilized Tribes

This section deals with money earned when surplus or unallotted land, or other tribal property, belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes is sold. First, the cost of advertising and running the sale gets subtracted from what the sale brought in. What is left is the "net receipts." The Secretary of the Interior may put this net money into national or state banks in Oklahoma. It is up to the Secretary whether to do this at all. The Secretary also picks which banks can hold the money and writes the rules for how much interest the banks pay, when the money can be deposited or withdrawn, and what security the banks must provide to protect the funds. Any interest the money earns while sitting in the bank can be used to cover the cost of making per capita payments — payments split evenly among tribal members — from these funds.