§ 403. Leases of lands held in trust

Statutory text

Any Indian allotment held under a trust patent may be leased by the allottee for a period not to exceed five years, subject to and in conformity with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the proceeds of any such lease shall be paid to the allottee or his heirs, or expended for his or their benefit, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.

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.

1910
Pub. L. 61–431 § 4 · 36 Stat. 855
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 403
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 4, 36 Stat. 856.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 4, 36 Stat. 856.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That any Indian allotment held under a trust patent may be leased by the allottee for a period not to exceed five years, subject to and in conformity with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the proceeds of any sudi lease shall be paid to the allottee or his heirs, or expended for his or their benefit, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 4, 36 Stat. 856.)