Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands
§ 396e. Officials authorized to approve leases
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, authorize superintendents or other officials in the Indian Service to approve leases for oil, gas, or other mining purposes covering any restricted Indian lands, tribal or allotted.
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. 75–198 § 5 · 52 Stat. 347
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 396e
(May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 5, 52 Stat. 348.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 5, 52 Stat. 348.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, authorize superintendents or other officials in the Indian Service, to approve leases for oil, gas, or other mining purposes covering any restricted Indian lands, tribal or allotted.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Repeal of Inconsistent Acts
For repeal of inconsistent acts, see section 7 of act , set out as a note under section 396a of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
(May 11, 1938, ch. 198, § 5, 52 Stat. 348.)