§5 Untitled Section

Summary

Minnesota court rulings that named the heirs of someone who held an allotment or interest, and were filed with the right county officer before May 9, 1979, are treated as if the dead person’s allotment or interest passed to those heirs. That is true unless the Secretary made a different heirs decision before March 24, 1986 and filed it with the right county officer within six months after March 24, 1986. Allotments listed in section 4 still get the compensation provided in the Act. Grants of allotments given to people who had died before the selection date are confirmed and count as if selected before death, but the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians must be paid under sections 6, 7, and 8. Reallotments made under the Treaty of March 19, 1867 and the Act of January 14, 1889 are also confirmed. “Proper county recording officer” means a county recorder, registrar of titles, or probate court in Becker, Clearwater, or Mahnomen Counties, Minnesota.