Volume 44
Public Law 69–37
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of competency removing the restrictions against alienation on the inherited lands of the Kansas or Kaw Indians in Oklahoma.
Approved February 27, 1926
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of competency removing the restrictions against alienation on the inherited lands of the Kansas or Kaw Indians in Oklahoma.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to issue certificates of competency removing the restrictions against alienation covering all or any part of the inherited lands of the Kansas or Kaw Indians in Oklahoma, upon the request therefor of
Proviso.
Issue of competency certificate.
the legal heirs to the estates of the deceased allottees: Provided, That these certificates shall be of the same form and legal effect as those issued to members of that tribe for their original homesteads and surplus land allotments, under section 10 of the Act of Congress
Vol. 32, p. 636.
of July 1, 1902 (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, pages 636–639).
Approved, February 27, 1926.