§ 687. — Per capita payment to tribal members; rules and regulations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC687]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXIX--RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS OF MINNESOTA
Sec. 687. Per capita payment to tribal members; rules and
regulations
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw as much as
may be necessary from the fund on deposit in the Treasury of the United
States arising from the proceeds of the sale of timber and lumber within
the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, according to the provisions of
the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 137), to the credit of the Red Lake
Indians in Minnesota, and to pay therefrom $100 to each member of the
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota who is living on August
28, 1958. Such payment shall be made under such rules and regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
(Pub. L. 85-794, Sec. 1, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 958.)
References in Text
Act of May 18, 1916, referred to in text, is act May 18, 1916, ch.
125, 39 Stat. 123. Provisions of the act relating to sale of timber are
set out at 39 Stat. 137 and were not classified to the Code.
Per Capita Payments From Net Proceeds
Section 4 of Pub. L. 85-794 amended the nineteenth paragraph of
section 9 of act May 18, 1916, ch. 125, 39 Stat. 138, to read as
follows: ``After the payment of all expenses connected with the
administration of these lands as herein provided, the net proceeds
therefrom shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the
credit of the Red Lake Indians and draw interest at the rate of 4 per
centum per annum. Any part of such fund or the interest thereon that is
in excess of reserve and operating requirements, as determined by the
Secretary of the Interior, may be distributed per capita to the members
of the Red Lake Band upon request of the tribal council and approval by
the Secretary.''
Administration of Red Lake Indian Forest
Section 5 of Pub. L. 85-794, amended act May 18, 1916, ch. 125,
Sec. 9(17), 39 Stat. 137, to read as follows: ``The Red Lake Indian
Forest shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in
accordance with principles of scientific forestry that will encourage
the production of successive timber crops for the benefit of the Indians
of the Red Lake Band, and he is hereby authorized (a) to harvest, sell,
and manufacture such marketable timber from any tribal lands within the
Red Lake Indian Reservation as he may deem to be advisable and, if the
timber is the growth of Red Lake Indian Forest, in keeping with the
foregoing principles, (b) to establish nurseries and otherwise provide
for the reforestation of said lands, (c) to construct and operate
sawmills and other facilities for the manufacture into marketable
products of the timber harvested from said lands, (d) to purchase,
harvest, and manufacture such additional timber standing on or severed
from any other lands, including lands outside the reservation, as in his
opinion may contribute to the profitable operation of such sawmills and
other facilities as a tribal enterprise, subject to such limitations on
expenditures as may be prescribed in annual appropriations acts, and (e)
to employ such persons and use such means as he may find necessary to
carry out the purposes of the foregoing provisions. Any proceeds derived
from sales of timber or timber products under this paragraph may be
expended in payment of the expenses of any of the activities authorized
by this paragraph including construction expenses.''
