§ 1211. — Distribution of fund; authorized spending; tax exemption.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1211]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LXIII--TLINGIT AND HAIDA INDIANS OF ALASKA
Sec. 1211. Distribution of fund; authorized spending; tax
exemption
The unexpended funds and interest thereon on deposit in the Treasury
of the United States to the credit of and otherwise invested by the
Secretary of the Interior for the account of the Tlingit and Haida
Indians of Alaska which were appropriated by the Act of July 9, 1968 (82
Stat. 307), to pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in the case
entitled. The Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, et al. versus The
United States, numbered 47900, after payment of attorney fees and
expenses, may be advanced, expended, invested or used for any purpose
and in any manner authorized by the Central Council of the Tlingit and
Haida Indians of Alaska and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Any of such funds that may be distributed under the provisions of this
subchapter shall not be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
(Pub. L. 91-335, July 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 431.)
References in Text
Act of July 9, 1968, referred to in text, is act July 9, 1968, Pub.
L. 90-392, 82 Stat. 307, known as the Second Supplemental Appropriation
Act, 1968. That portion of the act which appropriated the funds referred
to was not classified to the Code.
The Court of Claims, referred to in text, and the Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals were merged effective Oct. 1, 1982, into a new United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by Pub. L. 97-164, Apr.
2, 1982, 96 Stat. 25, which also created a United States Claims Court
[now United States Court of Federal Claims] that inherited the trial
jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See sections 48, 171 et seq., 791
et seq., and 1491 et seq. of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
