Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 8 — Rights-of-Way Through Indian Lands
§ 311. Opening highways
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant permission, upon compliance with such requirements as he may deem necessary, to the proper State or local authorities for the opening and establishment of public highways, in accordance with the laws of the State or Territory in which the lands are situated, through any Indian reservation or through any lands which have been allotted in severalty to any individual Indian under any laws or treaties but which have not been conveyed to the allottee with full power of alienation.
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. 56–832 § 4 · 31 Stat. 1058
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 311
(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 4, 31 Stat. 1084.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 4, 31 Stat. 1084.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant permission, upon compliance with such requirements as he may deem necessary, to the proper State or local authorities for the opening and establishment of public highways, in accordance with the laws of the State or Territory in which the lands are situated, through any Indian reservation or through any lands which have been allotted in severalty to any individual Indians under any laws or treaties but which have not been conveyed to the allottees with full power of alienation.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 832, § 4, 31 Stat. 1084.)