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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians

§ 154. Proceeds of sales of lands not subject to certain deductions

Statutory text

No part of the expenses of the public lands service shall be deducted from the proceeds of Indian lands sold through the Bureau of Land Management, except as authorized by the treaty or agreement providing for the disposition of the lands.

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. 48–180 § 10 · 23 Stat. 76

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 154

    July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 10, 23 Stat. 98

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 10, 23 Stat. 98

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. That no part of the expenses of the public lands service Proceeds of sale of Indian lands, etc., not applicable to expenses of public lauds service. Sale of government property on Indian reservations ; disposal of proceeds. shall be deducted from the proceeds of Indian lands sold through the General Land Office, except as authorized by the treaty or agreement providing for the his position of the lands.

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.

“Bureau of Land Management” substituted in text for “General Land Office” pursuant to section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, which established the Bureau and transferred thereto the functions of the General Land Office.

Credits

1884–1946 · 2 acts
  1. 1884July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 10, 23 Stat. 98
  2. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.
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(July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 10, 23 Stat. 98; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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