§ 180. Settling on or surveying lands belonging to Indians by treaty

Statutory text

Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of $1,000. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove any such person from 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.

undated
(R.S. § 2118.)
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 180
(R.S. § 2118.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2118.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2118 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 11, 4 Stat. 730.

Credits

(R.S. § 2118.)