§ 337. Allotments in national forests

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. 1910

   Pub. L. 61–431 § 31 · 36 Stat. 855

   Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 337

   (June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 31, 36 Stat. 863.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 31, 36 Stat. 863.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 31. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, National forests. Allotments to Indiang living in. Ante, p. 859. in his discretion, to make allotments within the national forests in conformity with the general allotment laws as amended by section of this Act, to any Indian occupying, living on, or having improvements on land included within any such national forest who is not entitled to an allotment on any existing Indian reservation, or for whose tribe no reservation has been provided, or whose reservation was not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All applications for allotments under the provisions of this section Applications, etc. shall be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture, who shall determine whether the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes than for the timber found thereon; and if it be found that the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes, then the Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment to be made as herein provided.

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