25 U.S.C. § 159 — Moneys due incompetents or orphans

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The Secretary of the Interior must settle accounts with people who collect money owed to incompetent or orphaned Indians. That money goes back into the U.S. Treasury instead of being paid out directly. It earns 6 percent interest until the Secretary orders it paid to the rightful person.

The Secretary of the Interior must settle accounts with everyone that Indian councils appointed to collect money owed to incompetent or orphaned Indians. Any money found to be owed to these incompetent or orphan Indians must be sent back to the U.S. Treasury. Money returned this way earns interest at 6 percent per year, until the Secretary of the Interior orders it paid out to the people entitled to it. Nobody that an Indian council appointed to collect this money may actually be paid it directly. Instead, the money stays in the U.S. Treasury until the Secretary orders it paid to the rightful recipients. While it waits there, it earns 6 percent interest.

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The Secretary of the Interior is directed to cause settlements to be made with all persons appointed by the Indian councils to receive moneys due to incompetent or orphan Indians, and to require all moneys found to be due to such incompetent or orphan Indians to be returned to the Treasury; and all moneys so returned shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum, until paid by order of the Secretary of the Interior to those entitled to the same. No money shall be paid to any person appointed by any Indian council to receive moneys due to incompetent or orphan Indians, but the same shall remain in the Treasury of the United States until ordered to be paid by the Secretary to those entitled to receive the same, and shall bear 6 per centum interest until so paid.

Source credit: (R.S. § 2108.)

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