Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians
§ 139. Appropriations for subsistence
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any surplus that may remain in any of the appropriations for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding $25,000 in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur: Provided, That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall be reported in detail, and the reason therefor, to Congress, at the session of Congress next succeeding such diversion.
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. 59–2285 · 34 Stat. 1015
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 139
(Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1016.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1016.)
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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, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1016.)