Chapter 857. Authorizing an advancement of certain funds standing to the credit of the Creek Nation in the Treasury of the United States to be paid to the attorneys for the Creek Nation, and for other purposes
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Chap. 857: Authorizing an advancement of certain funds standing to the credit of the Creek Nation in the Treasury of the United States to be paid to the attorneys for the Creek Nation, and for other purposes. Chapter 857 45 Stat. 944 1928-05-29 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 857.— An Act Authorizing an advancement of certain funds standing to the credit of the Creek Nation in the Treasury of the United States to be paid to the attorneys for the Creek Nation, and for other purposes.
May 29, 1928.[[S. 3868](/us/bill/70/s/3868).][[Public, No. 567](/us/pl/70/567).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Creek Indians.Sum allowed from tribal fund for expenses of attorneys in claims of, against United States.Vol. 43, p. 139. That there is hereby authorized to be expended, out of any money now standing to the credit of the Creek Nation of Indians in the Treasury of the United States, the sum of not exceeding $18,000 to be, by the Secretary of the Interior, paid out in his discretion to attorneys for the Creek Nation of Indians employed under the authority of the Act of Congress approved May 24, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 139), the payments to be made in such sums as may be necessary to reimburse the attorneys for such proper and necessary expenses as may have been incurred or may be incurred in the investigation of records and preparation, institution, and prosecution of suits of the Creek Nation of Indians against the United States under the above-mentioned Act of May 24, 1924: *Provided, however, *That the claims*Provisos.*Statement of expenses subject to approval of Secretary of the Interior. of the attorneys shall be filed by said attorneys with the Secretary of the Interior and shall be accompanied by the attorneys’ itemized and verified statement of the expenditures for expenses and by proper vouchers, and that the claims so submitted shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further,* 945 That any sums allowed and paid under this Act to the attorneys shallSums reimbursable from amount decreed by Court of Claims. be reimbursable to the credit of the Creek Nation out of any amount or amounts which may hereafter be decreed by the Court of Claims to said attorneys for their services and expenses in connection with the Creek tribal claims and suits under the above-mentioned Act of May 24, 1924.
Approved, May 29, 1928.
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