§ 280. Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations

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. 1922

   Pub. L. 67–367 § 3 · 42 Stat. 994

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 280

   (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, § 3, 42 Stat. 995.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, § 3, 42 Stat. 995.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized Indian reservations. Patents authorized to religious organization, of lands used for missions or schools on. and directed to issue a patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as have been heretofore set apart to and are now being actually and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station: Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer Proviso. Reversion for non-user. used for mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.

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