Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands
§ 341. Power to grant rights-of-way not affected
Statutory text
Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the right and power of Congress to grant the right of way through any lands granted to an Indian, or a tribe of Indians, for railroads or other highways, or telegraph lines, for the public use, or to condemn such lands to public uses, upon making just compensation.
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 § 10 · 24 Stat. 388
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 341
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 10, 24 Stat. 391.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 10, 24 Stat. 391.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as Rights of way not affected. to affect the right and power of Congress to grant the right of way through any lands granted to an Indian, or a tribe of Indians, for railroads or other highways, or telegraph lines, for the public use, or to condemn such lands to public uses, upon making just compensation.
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.
Credits
(Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 10, 24 Stat. 391.)