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Show ( c) To advise the Secretary of the Interior with regard to all appropriation estimates or Federal projects for the benefit of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation prior to the submission of such estimates to the Bureau of the Budget and to Congress. ( d) To select subordinate boards, tribal officials, and employees of the Council not otherwise provided for in this Constitution and to prescribe their tenure and duties. ( e) To promulgate ordinances regulating the domestic relations of members of the tribe. (/) To make rules and regulations governing its own procedure. { g) To approve or veto expenditures from tribal funds which may be proposed by the Secretary of the Interior. ( A) To manage the tribal herds, particularly with regard to the selling of steers, lambs, wool, the purchasing of fresh stock, the distribution of the increase to the members as individual cattle and sheep owners, and the protection of the herds and the range against encroachments. {{) To employ legal counsel for the protection and advancement of the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, the choice of counsel and the fixing of fees to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. ( j) To pass ordinances, subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, covering the activities of voluntary associations consisting of members of the tribe organized for the purpose of cooperation or for other purposes, and to enforce the observance of such ordinances. (/.;) To provide by ordinance, subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, for the removal of exclusion from the reservation of any nonmembers whose presence may be injurious to members of the tribe. (/) To provide by ordinance, subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, for the appointment of guardians for minors and mental incompetents. ( m) To prescribe rules for the inheritance of property other than allotted lands. (/?•) To regulate the conduct of members of the tribe and to protect the public peace, safety, morals and welfare of the reservation through the promulgation and enforcement of ordinances, subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, to effectuate these purposes. ( o) To appropriate funds for salaries of tribal officers and for public purposes from available funds of the tribe. ( p) To regulate by ordinance, subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, nonmembers doing business on the reservation. SEC. 2. The Council may exercise such further powers as may be delegated to the Ute Mountain Tribe by the Secretary of the Interior or any other qualified official or agency of government, and may exercise any rights and powers heretofore vested in the Ute Mountain Tribe, of the Ute Mountain Reservation but not expressly referred to in this Constitution. SEC. 3. Manner of ffev/' eto.- Any resolution or ordinance which by the terms of this Constitution is subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be presented to. the Superintendent of the reservation, who shall, within two weeks thereafter, approve or disap- |
