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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians

§ 116. Indians 18 years of age to have right to receipt for annuity

Statutory text

All Indians, when they shall arrive at the age of eighteen years, shall have the right to receive and receipt for all annuity money that may be due or become due to them, if not otherwise incapacitated under the regulations of the Indian Office.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 55–324 § 8 · 30 Stat. 924

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 116

    (Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 8, 30 Stat. 947.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 8, 30 Stat. 947.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. That hereafter all Indians, when they shall arrive at the age Indians may receipt for annuity money at 18 years of age. of eighteen years, shall have the right to receive and receipt for all annuity money that may be due or become due to them, if not otherwise incapacitated under the regulations of the Indian Office.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

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

(Mar. 1, 1899, ch. 324, § 8, 30 Stat. 947.)

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