Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73not60
§120 Per Capita Payments to Enrolled Members of Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes
Title 25 › Chapter 4— PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › Subchapter II— DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES › § 120
Summary
The Secretary may under his rules pay up to $200 yearly to enrolled Choctaw and Chickasaw members of Oklahoma or their lawful heirs from United States funds for the tribes that are left after expenditures required by annual appropriations or existing law.
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Title 25, §120
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The Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized to make per capita payments of not to exceed $200 annually to the enrolled members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians of Oklahoma, entitled under existing law to share in the funds of said tribes, or to their lawful heirs, of all the available money held by the Government of the United States for the benefit of said tribes in excess of that required for expenditures authorized by annual appropriations made therefrom or by existing law.
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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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25 U.S.C. § 120
Title 25 — Indians
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Apr 5, 2026
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