Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§833m Determination of compensation for acquisition of Indian lands; funds payable from; disposition of moneys
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12C— - FORT PECK PROJECT › § 833m
Summary
When land or land interests are taken under sections 833l through 833p, the Secretary of the Interior must decide a fair amount of money to pay to the Native Americans affected. The money for the tribe and for individual allottees or their heirs goes from funds provided for the Fort Peck project to the superintendent of the local Indian agency (or another official the Secretary names). That official must put the payments on the agency’s books for the tribe’s and each person’s account.
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Title 16, §833m
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As lands or interests in lands are designated from time to time under sections 833l to 833p of this title, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine the amount of money to be paid to the Indians as just and equitable compensation therefor. The amounts due the tribe and the individual allottees or their heirs or devisees shall be paid from funds now or hereafter made available to the Department of the Interior for the Fort Peck project to the superintendent of the appropriate Indian agency, or such other officer as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, for credit on the books of such agency to the accounts of the tribe and the individuals concerned.
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Codification Section was not enacted as part of act May 18, 1938, which comprises this chapter.
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of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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16 U.S.C. § 833m
Title 16 — Conservation
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Apr 6, 2026
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