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Title 25 — Indians

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

§ 405. Sale of allotment of noncompetent Indian

Statutory text

Any noncompetent Indian to whom a patent containing restrictions against alienation has been issued for an allotment of land in severalty, under any law or treaty, or who may have an interest in any allotment by inheritance, may sell or convey all or any part of such allotment or such inherited interest on such terms and conditions and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be used for the benefit of the allottee or heir so disposing of his land or interest, under the supervision of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and any conveyance made hereunder and approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall convey full title to the land or interest so sold, the same as if fee-simple patent had been issued to the allottee.

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. 59–2285 · 34 Stat. 1015

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 405

    (Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1018.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1018.)

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

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

(Mar. 1, 1907, ch. 2285, 34 Stat. 1018.)

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