May 27, 1902
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 32, Part 1, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Seventh Congress during its first session in 1902. The following text is from Chapter 888 (32 Stat. 265).]
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, with the consent of the tribe, to distribute the cattle belonging to the Crow tribe, known as the "common herd" and held as such under the ninth article of the agreement with said tribe of December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, ratified by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, ten hundred and forty-one), among the members of said tribe, to be held by them as individuals in the same manner as their other individual stock is held, after which the common herd shall cease to exist. The Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to distribute among the tribe per capita all of the money due or to become due said Indians from sales from the common herd, known as the "Crow herd fund": Provided, That the distribution of the cattle and payment of the money shall be made at such time and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion may prescribe. That the funds now in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Crow Indians in Montana, or any portion of it, may, with the consent of the tribe, be used by the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, in the purchase of stock cattle to be distributed among the members of the tribe under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Approved, May 27, 1902.