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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations

§ 211. Creation of Indian reservations

Statutory text

No Indian reservation shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of New Mexico and Arizona, except by Act of Congress.

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. 65–86 § 2 · 40 Stat. 391

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 211

    (May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 2, 40 Stat. 570.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 2, 40 Stat. 570.)

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Credits

(May 25, 1918, ch. 86, § 2, 40 Stat. 570.)

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