[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 25CFR16.8]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 16_ESTATES OF INDIANS OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.8  Summary distribution of small liquid estates.

    Where information, furnished by the Bureau pursuant to Sec. 16.4 or 
otherwise obtained, reveals that the estate of a deceased Indian of the 
Five Civilized Tribes contains no restricted land but consists of a 
restricted interest in funds not exceeding $500 on deposit to the credit 
of the decedent, the Field Solicitor shall, in the absence of any final 
decree determining the heirs or legatees of the decedent, prepare and 
furnish to the Bureau a finding and order of distribution, based on 
affidavit or other proof of death and heirship or bequest, setting forth 
the facts of death and heirship or bequest and the amount payable from 
the estate to each person determined to be an heir or legatee of the 
decedent. The Field Solicitor shall mail to each person considered a 
possible claimant to any portion of the estate, as an heir or legatee or 
otherwise, a copy of the order with a notice that the order shall become 
final 30 days after the date of mailing thereof unless within that 
period the officer by whom the order was signed shall have received a 
written request for reconsideration of the order. After

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final action on any order has been taken by the Field Solicitor, the 
Bureau shall distribute the funds in the estate of the decedent in 
accordance with such final action, unless a timely appeal therefrom has 
been filed in accordance with part 2 of this title.