Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands
§ 352. Cancellation of trust patents within power or reservoir sites
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior, after notice and hearing, is authorized to cancel trust patents issued to Indian allottees for allotments within any power or reservoir site and for allotments or such portions of allotments as are located upon or include lands set aside, reserved, or required within any Indian reservation for irrigation purposes under authority of Congress: Provided, That any Indian allottee whose allotment shall be so canceled shall be reimbursed for all improvements on his canceled allotment, out of any moneys available for the construction of the irrigation project for which the said power or reservoir site may be set aside: Provided further, That any Indian allottee whose allotment, or part thereof, is so canceled shall be allotted land of equal value within the area subject to irrigation by any such project.
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. 61–431 § 14 · 36 Stat. 855
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 352
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 14, 36 Stat. 859.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 14, 36 Stat. 859.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 14. That the Secretary of the Interior, after notice and hearing, Trust allotments. Canceling patents in power sites, etc. is hereby authorized to cancel trust patents issued to Indian allottees for allotments within any power or reservoir site and for allotments or such portions of allotments as are located upon or include lands set aside, reserved, or required within any Indian reservation for irrigation purposes under authority of Congress: Provided, That Provisos. Reimbursing Indians. any Indian allottee whose allotment shall be so canceled shall be reimbursed for all improvements on his canceled allotment, out of any moneys available for the construction of the irrigation project for which the said power or reservoir site may be set aside: Provided Lieu allotments. further, That any Indian allottee whose allotment, or part thereof, is so canceled shall be allotted land of equal value within the area subject to irrigation by any such project.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 14, 36 Stat. 859.)