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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands

§ 391a. Sale for town site; removal of restriction

Statutory text

For the purpose of allowing any Indian allottee to sell for townsite purposes any portion of the lands allotted to him, the Secretary of the Interior may, by order, remove restrictions upon the alienation of such lands and issue fee-simple patents therefor under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

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. 59–3504 · 34 Stat. 325

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 391a

    (June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 373.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 373.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 373.)

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