§ 672. — Division of trust funds; ratification of resolution; crediting of shares; release of United States from liability in certain cases.
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[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC672]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXVII--UTE INDIANS OF UTAH
Sec. 672. Division of trust funds; ratification of resolution;
crediting of shares; release of United States from liability in
certain cases
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to divide
the trust funds belonging to the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians and
deposited in the United States Treasury pursuant to section 399 of this
title, section 315j of title 43, and the Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat.
1211), as amended, including the interest thereon, by crediting 60 per
centum to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation,
consisting of the Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White River Utes, and 40 per
centum to the Southern Utes, consisting of the Southern Utes of the
Southern Ute Reservation and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
Reservation. The resolution adopted June 1, 1950, by the members of the
Uncompahgre, White River, and Uintah bands of Ute Indians compromising
and settling all existing controversies between themselves as to
ownership and distribution of any judgments which may be obtained
against the United States and as to ownership of land within the Uintah
and Ouray Reservation and income issuing therefrom by providing that the
same shall become the tribal property of all the Indians of the Ute
Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation without regard to band
derivation is ratified, approved and confirmed. The funds apportioned to
the Southern Utes under this section shall be divided between the
Southern Utes of the Southern Ute Reservation and the Ute Mountain Tribe
of the Ute Mountain Reservation as agreed between said tribes. The
shares of the respective groups shall be credited to the existing
accounts established pursuant to sections 155 and 161a to 161d of this
title. None of the funds involved herein shall be credited or
distributed to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation,
consisting of the Uintah, Uncompahgre, and White Rivers Utes, until the
Uncompahgre and White River Banks present to the Secretary of the
Interior a release satisfactory to him, relieving the United States of
any liability resulting from the inclusion of the Uintah Band in the
disposition or use of said trust funds.
(Aug. 21, 1951, ch. 338, Sec. 2, 65 Stat. 194.)
References in Text
Act of June 28, 1938, referred to in text, is act June 28, 1938, ch.
776, 52 Stat. 1209, which was not classified to the Code.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 676a, 676b of this title.
