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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 7A — Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare

§ 306. Expenditures for encouragement of industry and self-support; repayment

Statutory text

On and after , the expenditures for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops shall be under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for repayment to the United States on or before the expiration of five years, except in the case of loans on irrigable lands for permanent improvement of said lands, in which the period for repayment may run for not exceeding twenty years, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.

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. Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1939

    Pub. L. 75–187 § 1 · 52 Stat. 291

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 306

    (May 9, 1938, ch. 187, § 1, 52 Stat. 302.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 9, 1938, ch. 187, § 1, 52 Stat. 302.)

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

Credits

(May 9, 1938, ch. 187, § 1, 52 Stat. 302.)

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