May 31, 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. 262).]
That the following sums, placed upon the books of the Treasury by the Indian appropriation Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, pages one thousand and sixty-two and one thousand and sixty-eight), to the credit of the tribes named, being in full for permanent annuities guaranteed by treaties to said tribes, shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum from the following dates, namely: Chickasaw national fund, sixty thousand dollars, from July first, nineteen hundred and one; Seneca fund, seventy-three thousand eight hundred dollars, from July first, nineteen hundred and two; Eastern Shawnee fund, twenty thousand six hundred dollars, from July first, nineteen hundred and two:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, per capita, immediately upon the passage of this Act, to the members of the Eastern Shawnee and Seneca tribes of Indians entitled thereto, all moneys placed to the credit of said tribes upon the books of the Treasury and all trust funds held for said tribes by the Government in lieu of investments:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place in the sub-treasury at Saint Louis, Missouri, to the credit of the national treasurer of the Chickasaw Nation the balance of the said Chickasaw national fund after deducting the ten thousand dollars appropriated out of said fund for the aid of certain indigent Chickasaws.
And the Act of the councils of the Eastern Shawnee and of the Seneca nations, or tribes of the Indian Territory "Providing for the allotment of lands to certain minor children and for other purposes," passed, respectively on the second day of December, nineteen hundred and one, and the eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby ratified and approved.
Approved, May 31, 1902.