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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1941.
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| Chap. 874 | Klamath Indians, Oreg. Capital reserve fund created out of tribal moneys for. |
| Chap. 874 | Annual increments. |
| Chap. 874 | Interest; use of. |
| Sec. 2 | Reimbursable loan fund established; use of. |
| Sec. 2 | Annual additions. |
| Sec. 3 | Administration by a loan board. |
| Sec. 3 | Provisos. Sale of pledges. |
| Sec. 3 | Operating expenses. |
| Sec. 4 | Types of property as security. |
| Sec. 5 | Credit of repayments. |
| Sec. 6 | Limitation. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be established on the books of the Treasury, out of any unobligated tribal funds of the Indians of the Klamath Reservation in Oregon (hereinafter referred to as the "Klamath Indians") on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, a capital reserve fund for said Klamath Indians. Such fund shall be created by setting aside the sum of $50,000 for the fiscal year 1937, and shall be augmented by additions of $50,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. Such fund shall be held in the Treasury of the United States and shall bear interest as provided by law. The interest upon such fund shall be used, insofar as it is sufficient, for the payment of the expenses of administration of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon.
The Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be established on the books of the Treasury, out of any unobligated tribal funds of the Klamath Indians on deposit in the Treasury, a reimbursable loan fund from which loans may be made to enrolled Klamath Indians for 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, or any other equipment or supplies necessary to enable such Indians to fit themselves for or to engage in farming, the livestock industry, or such other industrial or agricultural pursuits or avocations as will enable them to become self-supporting); for the educational advancement of such Indians; for financial assistance in cases of illness, death, or other emergency; for the maintenance and support of the aged, infirm and incapacitated Klamath Indians; and for the repayment of reimbursable loans pre-
viously made to such Indians from tribal funds. For the establishment of such loan fund, the Secretary of the Interior shall immediately set aside the unexpended balance of any funds heretofore appropriated or authorized to be used out of the tribal funds of the Klamath Indians for the establishment of reimbursable loan funds for industrial assistance or for any other purpose; and in addition thereto, out of any unobligated tribal funds, $100,000 shall be set aside for the fiscal year 1938 and $50,000 for each of the next three fiscal years.
The reimbursable loan fund provided for in section 2 hereof shall be administered, under and subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, by a loan board composed of Klamath Indians of not to exceed five members: Provided, That in the event any property pledged as security is offered for sale to satisfy any obligation, the Klamath Indians shall have preferential right, except there shall be no discrimination as to terms of sale, to purchase the same: Provided further, That the expenses of administering such fund, including such per diem for members of the loan board as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be paid from such loan fund. After the fiscal year 1939 the aforesaid expenses of administration shall not exceed the amount received from service fees, surcharges, and interest paid in on loans.
For the purpose of providing adequate security for any loans made from the revolving reimbursable loan fund provided for in section 2 hereof, the Klamath Indians are hereby authorized to include in the securities offered therefor, in addition to any unrestricted real or personal property owned by them, any lands, interest in lands, rights, funds, future per-capita payments and other distributions of tribal assets, and other property, real, personal, or mixed, of any nature whatsoever, belonging to individual Klamath Indians, heretofore regarded or classed as trust or restricted Indian property.
All repayments made upon any loans made from the reimbursable loan fund herein provided for, all repayments made upon any loans made from reimbursable loan funds for industrial assistance or for other purposes heretofore established out of Klamath tribal funds, and all interest, surcharges, and service fees paid upon any such loans, shall be credited to the reimbursable loan fund herein provided for and shall become available for the purposes herein authorized.
The amounts which the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be added to the capital and loan funds established at his direction under the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this Act during each fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of unobligated Klamath tribal funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States available for that purpose.
Approved, August 28, 1937.
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