Chapter 369. To authorize a per capita payment from tribal funds to the Fort Hall Indians
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CHAP. 369.— An Act To authorize a per capita payment from tribal funds to the Fort Hall Indians.March 3, 1927.[[H. R. 16744](/us/bill/69/hr/16744).][[Public, No. 772](/us/pl/69/772).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Hall Indians, Idaho.Per capita payment to, for lands submerged by American Foils Reservoir.Vol. 43, p. 118. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States $400,000 of the fund created by the Act of May 9, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 118), and now on deposit therein to the credit of the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, as compensation for their land submerged by the American Falls Reservoir, and to distribute said sum among said Indians equally, share and share alike, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Approved, March 3, 1927.