---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 123"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "123"
heading: "Expenditure from tribal funds without specific appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/123"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians"
  - "Subchapter II — Disbursement of Moneys and Supplies"
---

# §123. Expenditure from tribal funds without specific appropriations


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.


## Source credit

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