Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations
§ 261. Power to appoint traders with Indians
Statutory text
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall have the sole power and authority to appoint traders to the Indian tribes and to make such rules and regulations as he may deem just and proper specifying the kind and quantity of goods and the prices at which such goods shall be sold to the Indians.
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. 44–289 § 5 · 19 Stat. 176
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 261
(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 289, § 5, 19 Stat. 200.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 289, § 5, 19 Stat. 200.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. And hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall have the sole power and authority to appoint Traders to the Indian tribes and to make such rules and regulations as he may deem just and proper specifying the kind and quantity of goods and the prices at which such goods shall be sold to the Indians.
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.
Credits
(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 289, § 5, 19 Stat. 200.)