Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands
§ 339. Tribes excepted from certain provisions
Statutory text
The provisions of this act shall not extend to the territory occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Osage, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes, in Oklahoma, nor to any of the reservations of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians in the State of New York, nor to that strip of territory in the State of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux Nation on the south added by Executive order.
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. 49–119 § 8 · 24 Stat. 388
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 339
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 8, 24 Stat. 391.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 8, 24 Stat. 391.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. That the provision of this act shall not extend to the territory Lands excepted. occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoies, and Osage, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes, in the Indian Territory, nor to any of the reservations of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians in the State of New York, nor to that strip of Territory in the State of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux Nation on the south added by executive order.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, 24 Stat. 388, and is popularly known as the Indian General Allotment Act. For classification of this act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 331 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Sacs and Foxes; Missouri Indians
No allotment of lands was to be made or annuities of money to be paid to any of the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri Indians who were not enrolled as members of the tribe on , by a proviso annexed to act Feb. 28, 1891, ch. 383, § 5, 26 Stat. 796.
Credits
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 8, 24 Stat. 391.)