---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 82a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "82a"
heading: "Contracts for payment of money permitted certain tribes; payment for legal services"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/82a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Agreements with Indians"
  - "Subchapter II — Contracts with Indians"
---

# §82a. Contracts for payment of money permitted certain tribes; payment for legal services


Contracts involving the payment or expenditure of any money or affecting any property belonging to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole [Tribes](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) of [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md), including contracts for professional legal services, may be made by said [tribes](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A), with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior, or his authorized representative, under such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to contracts for professional legal services involving the prosecution of claims against the United States.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1952, ch. 549, § 1, 66 Stat. 323.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Contracts Involving Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes

Act July 3, 1952, ch. 549, § 2, 66 Stat. 323, provided: “That the second proviso in section 28 of the Act of April 26, 1906, ch. 1876 (34 Stat. 148) [not classified to the Code], and the provisions contained in the fifth paragraph of section 17 of the Act of March 3, 1911, ch. 210 (36 Stat. 1070) [not classified to the Code], dealing with contracts made by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians for professional legal services of attorneys, are hereby repealed.”