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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians

§ 140. Diversion of appropriations for employees and supplies

Statutory text

The several appropriations made for millers, blacksmiths, engineers, carpenters, physicians, and other persons, and for various articles provided for by treaty stipulation for the several Indian tribes, may be diverted to other uses for the benefit of said tribes, respectively, within the discretion of the President, and with the consent of said tribes, expressed in the usual manner; and he shall cause report to be made to Congress, at its next session thereafter, of his action under this provision.

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. 59–2285 · 34 Stat. 1015

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 140

    (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

Delegation of Functions

For delegation to Secretary of the Interior of authority vested in President by this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 10250, , 16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.

Credits

(Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1016.)

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