§ 653. — Statutes of limitations unavailable against claims; amount of decree; setoff.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC653]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXV--INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA
Sec. 653. Statutes of limitations unavailable against claims;
amount of decree; set-off
If any claim or claims be submitted to said courts, they shall
settle the equitable rights therein, notwithstanding lapse of time or
statutes of limitation or the fact that the said claim or claims have
not been presented to any other tribunal, including the commission
created by the Act of March 3, 1851 (Ninth Statutes at Large, page 631):
Provided, That any decree for said Indians shall be for an amount equal
to the just value of the compensation provided or proposed for the
Indians in those certain eighteen unratified treaties executed by the
chiefs and head men of the several tribes and bands of Indians of
California and submitted to the Senate of the United States by the
President of the United States for ratification on the 1st day of June,
1852, including the lands described therein at $1.25 per acre. Any
payment which may have been made by the United States or moneys
heretofore or hereafter expended to date of award for the benefit of the
Indians of California, made under specific appropriations for the
support, education, health, and civilization of Indians in California,
including purchases of land, shall not be pleaded as an estoppel but may
be pleaded by way of set-off.
(May 18, 1928, ch. 624, Sec. 3, 45 Stat. 602.)
References in Text
Act of March 3, 1851, referred to in text, is act Mar. 3, 1851, ch.
41, 9 Stat. 631, which was not classified to the Code.
