Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 1 — Bureau of Indian Affairs
§ 1. Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Statutory text
There shall be in the Department of the Interior a Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 462.)
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1
(R.S. § 462.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 462.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 462 derived from act July 9, 1832, ch. 174, § 1, 4 Stat. 564.
Provisions of this section relating to compensation of the Commissioner were omitted as obsolete. The position is in level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
(R.S. § 462.)