§ 564. — Purpose.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC564]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XIII--KLAMATH TRIBE: TERMINATION OF FEDERAL SUPERVISION
Sec. 564. Purpose
The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the termination of
Federal supervision over the trust and restricted property of the
Klamath Tribe of Indians consisting of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and
the Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, and of the individual members
thereof, for the disposition of federally owned property acquired or
withdrawn for the administration of the affairs of said Indians, and for
a termination of Federal services furnished such Indians because of
their status as Indians.
(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 732, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 718.)
Revolving Fund: Interest-Free Loans to Klamath Indians; Refinancing
Lending Agency Loans
Pub. L. 86-40, June 11, 1959, 73 Stat. 70, provided: ``That the
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make loans, without interest,
from the revolving fund authorized by the Acts of June 18, 1934 (48
Stat. 986; 25 U.S.C. 470), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1968; 25 U.S.C.
506), as amended and supplemented, to members of the Klamath Tribe of
Indians who elected to withdraw from the tribe pursuant to the Act of
August 13, 1954 (68 Stat. 718; 25 U.S.C. 564), as amended, regardless of
the degree of Indian blood of the borrower, and to collect such loans by
setoff against funds payable to the borrower pursuant to said Act of
August 13, 1954, as amended [this subchapter]. The Secretary is also
authorized to refinance from such revolving fund any loan made by a
lending agency to a withdrawing Klamath Indian that is secured by
encumbrance of his beneficial interest in tribal property with the
approval of the Secretary as required by section 4 of said 1954 Act
[section 564c of this title], and to include therein a nonreimbursable
grant equal to the interest charges incurred by the borrower prior to
such refinancing. In the event adequate funds are not available from the
revolving fund to refinance a loan by such lending agency, the Secretary
is authorized to pay from the revolving fund, without reimbursement, the
interest charged on such loan.''
Indian Revolving Loan Fund
Certain funds to be administered as a single Indian Revolving Loan
Fund after Apr. 12, 1974, see section 1461 of this title.
Repeals; Recoupment of Funds Expended for Klamath County School Board
Section 24 of act Aug. 13, 1954, as amended by Pub. L. 85-72, June
29, 1957, 71 Stat. 243, provided that: ``All Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act [this subchapter] are hereby repealed insofar
as they affect the tribe or its members. Effective on July 1, 1957,
section 2 of the Act of August 19, 1949 (63 Stat. 621, ch. 488) shall
become inapplicable to the unrecouped balance of funds expended in
cooperation with the school board of Klamath County, Oregon, pursuant to
said Act.''
Separability
Section 25 of act Aug. 13, 1954, provided that: ``If any provision
of this Act [this subchapter], or the application thereof to any person
or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the
application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall
not be affected thereby.''
