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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations

§ 262. Persons permitted to trade with Indians

Statutory text

Any person desiring to trade with the Indians on any Indian reservation shall, upon establishing the fact, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that he is a proper person to engage in such trade, be permitted to do so under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs may prescribe for the protection of said 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.

  1. Pub. L. 56–832 § 1 · 31 Stat. 1058

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 262

    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 1, 31 Stat. 1066

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 1, 31 Stat. 1066

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Act , restricted provisions to the Osages and the Osage Indian Reservation. Act , extended the provisions to all Indian reservations.

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

1901–1903 · 2 acts
  1. 1901Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 1, 31 Stat. 1066
  2. 1903Mar. 3, 1903, ch. 994, § 10, 32 Stat. 1009.
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(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 1, 31 Stat. 1066; Mar. 3, 1903, ch. 994, § 10, 32 Stat. 1009.)

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