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Title 25 — Indians

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

§ 402a. Lease of unallotted irrigable lands for farming purposes

Statutory text

The unallotted irrigable lands on any Indian reservation may be leased for farming purposes for not to exceed ten years with the consent of the tribal council, business committee, or other authorized body representative of the Indians, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior 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. 69–787 · 44 Stat. 894

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 402a

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 787, 44 Stat. 894.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 3, 1926, ch. 787, 44 Stat. 894.)

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

Credits

(July 3, 1926, ch. 787, 44 Stat. 894.)

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