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title: "25 U.S.C. § 123"
description: "Expenditure from tribal funds without specific appropriations"
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title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
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citation: "25 U.S.C. § 123"
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# 25 U.S.C. § 123 - Expenditure from tribal funds without specific appropriations

## Text

No money shall be expended from Indian tribal funds without specific appropriation by Congress except as follows: Equalization of allotments, education of Indian children in accordance with existing law, per capita and other payments, all of which are hereby continued in full force and effect: Provided, That this shall not change existing law with reference to the Five Civilized Tribes.

(May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 27, 39 Stat. 158.)