TITLE 25 - US CODE - SUBCHAPTER XI - KLAMATH TRIBE: PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF ALLOTMENTS; INHERITANCE OF RESTRICTED PROPERTY

25 USC 551 - Klamath Tribe defined

As used in this subchapter the term Klamath Tribe includes the members of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and the Yahooskin Band of Snakes and all other Indians having rights on the Klamath Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon.

25 USC 552 - Payments in lieu of allotments

Each enrolled member of the Klamath Tribe living on June 1, 1938, who has not received an allotment of land shall be paid the sum of $1,500 from unobligated Klamath tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, in installments of not to exceed $300 per annum: Provided, That no member of the Klamath Tribe who shall not be enrolled within one year from June 1, 1938, shall receive a payment in lieu of allotment. No member of the Klamath Tribe born after June 1, 1938, shall be entitled to receive any allotment of land or money payment in lieu thereof.

25 USC 553 - Deposit and expenditure of payments

The payments herein authorized shall be deposited to the credit of the individual Indian money accounts of such Indians subject to expenditure by such Indians, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for
(1)  industrial and agricultural assistance, and the construction and improvement of homes, including the purchase of land and interests in land, building material, farming equipment, industrial equipment, trucks, livestock, feed, food, seed, tools, machinery, implements, household goods, bedding, clothing, and any other equipment or supplies necessary to enable the Indians to fit themselves for or to engage in the farming, livestock industry, or such other industrial or agricultural pursuits or avocations as will enable them to become self-supporting;
(2)  the educational advancement of such Indians;
(3)  financial assistance in cases of illness, death, or other emergency;
(4)  the repayment of reimbursable debts previously contracted; or
(5)  security for or the repayment of loans made to such Indians from any Klamath revolving loan fund now existent or which shall hereafter be created.

25 USC 554 - Disposition of payment on death of Indian

In the event of the death of any such Indian entitled to receive a payment in lieu of allotment after June 1, 1938, any unexpended balance of said $1,500 still due the decedent shall first be applied to the repayment of any loans received by such Indian from the United States or from the Klamath Tribal funds, and the balance thereafter shall be distributed as personal property.

25 USC 555 - Repealed. Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 732, 9(c), 68 Stat. 721

Section, act June 1, 1938, ch. 310, 5, 52 Stat. 606, related to devise of restricted or trust property and is now covered by section 564h of this title.

25 USC 556 - Reversion of interest in property on death without heirs or devisees

If any enrolled member of the Klamath Tribe dies without lawful heirs or devises,[1] all interest which such member has in any restricted or trust property within the Klamath Reservation shall revert to and become part of the common tribal property.
[1] So in original. Probably should be “devisees,”.