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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands

§ 351. Patents with restrictions for lots in villages in Washington

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, whenever in his opinion it shall be conducive to the best welfare and interest of the Indians living within any Indian village on any of the Indian reservations in the State of Washington to issue a patent to each of said Indians for the village or town lot occupied by him, which patent shall contain restrictions against the alienation of the lot described therein to persons other than members of the tribe, except on approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and if any such Indian shall die subsequent to , and before receiving patent to the lot occupied by him, the lot to which such Indian would have been entitled if living shall be patented in his name and shall be disposed of as provided for in section 372 of this title.

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. Pub. L. 61–431 § 10 · 36 Stat. 855

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 351

    (June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 10, 36 Stat. 858.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 10, 36 Stat. 858.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Washington. Inalienable patents to lots in Indian villages. authorized, whenever in his opinion it shall be conducive to the best welfare and interest of the Indians living within any Indian village on any of the Indian reservations in the State of Washington, to issue a patent to each of said Indians for the village or town lot occupied by him, which patent shall contain restrictions against the alienation of the lot described therein to persons other than members of the tribe, except on approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and if any sudi Indian shall die subsequent to the approval of this Act, and before receiving patent to the lot occupied by him, the lot to which such Indian would have been entitled if living shall be patented in his name and shall be disposed of as provided for in section one Ante, p. 855. of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 10, 36 Stat. 858.)

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