§ 1262. — Membership roll; per capita distribution; minors.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1262]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LXVIII--BLACKFEET AND GROS VENTRE TRIBES: DISTRIBUTION OF
JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 1262. Membership roll; per capita distribution; minors
The sum of $5,671,156 from the funds credited to the Blackfeet Tribe
under section 1261 of this title shall be distributed per capita to each
person whose name appears on or is entitled to appear on the membership
roll of the Blackfeet Tribe, and who was born on or prior to and is
living on March 18, 1972. The sum of $2,100,000 from the funds credited
to the Gros Ventre Tribe under section 1261 of this title shall be
distributed per capita to all members of the Fort Belknap Community who
were born on or prior to and are living on March 18, 1972, and (a) whose
names appear on the February 5, 1937, payment roll of the Gros Ventre
Tribe of the Fort Belknap Reservation, or (b) who are descended from a
person whose name appears on said roll, if such member possesses a
greater degree of Gros Ventre blood than Assiniboine blood. If such
member possesses equal quantums of Gros Ventre and Assiniboine blood he
may elect to participate in the per capita distribution authorized by
this section, in which event he shall not be eligible to participate in
any per capita distribution of an Assiniboine judgment. A share or
interest payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less
than eighteen years of age or under legal disability shall be paid in
accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts,
as the Secretary determines appropriate to protect the best interest of
such persons.
(Pub. L. 92-254, Sec. 2, Mar. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 64.)
