Chapter 487. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe of Indians against tribal funds or against the United States
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Chap. 487: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe of Indians against tribal funds or against the United States. Chapter 487 45 Stat. 484 1928-05-03 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 487.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe of Indians against tribal funds or against the United States.
May 3, 1928.[[H. R. 6862](/us/bill/70/hr/6862).][[Public, No. 347](/us/pl/70/347).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary Sioux Indians.Investigation, etc., of claims of enrolled individual, against tribal funds, etc.of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of the individual Indians whose names are enrolled on the approved rolls of the following Indian agencies:
Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lotver Brule, Crow Creek, Cheyenne River, Yankton, Sisseton, and Flandreaux, in the State of South Dakota; Fort Peck, in the State of Montana; Fort Totten, in the State of North Dakota; Standing Rock, in the States of North *Provisos.*and South Dakota; and Santee, in the State of Nebraska: *Provided,* 485That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make all rules Regulations to be made.Nature of claims.and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act: *Provided further,* That the claims which shall be investigated under this Act shall be individual claims for allotments of land and for loss of personal property or improvements where the claimants or those through whom the claims originated were not members of any band of Indians engaged in hostilities against the United States at the time the losses occurred.
If any such claims shall Adjustment, etc., of meritorious claims.be considered meritorious, the Secretary of the Interior shall adjust same where there is existing law to authorize their adjustment, and such other meritorious claims he shall report to Congress with appropriate recommendation. Approved, May 3, 1928.
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Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate, hear, and determine the claims of individual members of the Sioux Tribe of Indians against tribal funds or against the United States
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