Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians
§ 136. Commutation of rations and other supplies; payment per capita
Statutory text
When, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, any Indian tribe, or part thereof, who are receiving rations and clothing and other supplies under the Act of , chapter 545, are sufficiently advanced in civilization to purchase such rations and clothing and other supplies judiciously, they may commute the same and pay the value thereof in money per capita to such tribe or part thereof, the manner of such payment to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
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.
Pub. L. 55–545 § 7 · 30 Stat. 571
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 136
(July 1, 1898, ch. 545, § 7, 30 Stat. 596.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 1, 1898, ch. 545, § 7, 30 Stat. 596.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. That hereafter when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Commutation of rations, etc. Interior, any Indian tribe, or part thereof, who are receiving rations and clothing and other supplies under this Act, are sufficiently advanced in civilization to purchase such rations and clothing and other supplies judiciously, they may commute the same and pay the value thereof in money per capita to such tribe or part thereof, the manner of such payment to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act of , referred to in text, is act July 1, 1898, ch. 545, 30 Stat. 573, which enacted sections 32, 136, and 191 of this title and amended section 27 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
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
(July 1, 1898, ch. 545, § 7, 30 Stat. 596.)