25 USC § 119 - Allotment of tribal funds to individual Indians

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title: "25 USC § 119 - Allotment of tribal funds to individual Indians"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "119"
section_name: "Allotment of tribal funds to individual Indians"
chapter_number: 4
chapter_name: "PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES"
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last_updated: "2025-07-14"
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source_credit: "(Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 1, 34 Stat. 1221; Pub. L. 97–164, title I, § 160(a)(7), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 48; Pub. L. 102–572, title IX, § 902(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)"
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# § 119. Allotment of tribal funds to individual Indians

*Provided**Provided further*

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, from time to time, to designate any individual Indian belonging to any tribe or tribes whom he may deem to be capable of managing his or her affairs, and he may cause to be apportioned and allotted to any such Indian his or her pro rata share of any tribal or trust funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the tribe or tribes of which said Indian is a member, and the amount so apportioned and allotted shall be placed to the credit of such Indian upon the books of the Treasury, and the same shall thereupon be subject to the order of such Indian: , That no apportionment or allotment shall be made to any Indian until such Indian has first made an application therefor: , That the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Treasury are directed to withhold from such apportionment and allotment a sufficient sum of the said Indian funds as may be necessary or required to pay any existing claims against said Indians that may be pending for settlement by judicial determination in the United States Court of Federal Claims or in the Executive Departments of the Government, at time of such apportionment and allotment.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2523, § 1, 34 Stat. 1221; Pub. L. 97–164, title I, § 160(a)(7), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 48; Pub. L. 102–572, title IX, § 902(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992— substituted “United States Court of Federal Claims” for “United States Claims Court”.

1982— substituted “United States Claims Court” for “Court of Claims”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under , Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

### Effective Date of 1982 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under , Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions 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. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.