§5 Untitled Section

Summary

Minnesota court rulings that named the heirs of someone who owned an allotment and were recorded with the proper county office before May 9, 1979, will be treated as if they transferred the deceased person’s ownership to those heirs. That will not apply if the Secretary made a different heirs decision before the law took effect on March 24, 1986, and that decision was recorded within six months after March 24, 1986. The "proper county recording officer" means a county recorder, a registrar of titles, or a probate court in Becker, Clearwater, or Mahnomen Counties, Minnesota. Nothing here removes any allotment in section 4 from the compensation set out in the Act. Allotments given to a person who died before the selection date are confirmed and count as if the person had chosen them while alive, and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians must be paid for those allotments as described in sections 6, 7, and 8. Allotments made under the Treaty of March 19, 1867, and reallotted under the Act of January 14, 1889, are also confirmed.