Skip to content

Title 25 — Indians

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

§ 413. Fees to cover cost of work performed for Indians

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to collect reasonable fees to cover the cost of any and all work performed for Indian tribes or for individual Indians, to be paid by vendees, lessees, or assignees, or deducted from the proceeds of sale, leases, or other sources of revenue: Provided, That the amounts so collected shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, except when the expenses of the work are paid from Indian tribal funds, in which event they shall be credited to such funds.

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. 66–75 § 1 · 41 Stat. 292

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 413

    Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 415

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 415

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

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1933—Act , substituted “to collect reasonable fees to cover the cost of any and all work performed for Indian tribes or individual Indians” for “to charge a reasonable fee for the work incident to the sale, leasing, or assigning of such lands, or in the sale of the timber, or in the administration of Indian forests” and “deducted from the proceeds of sale, leases, or other sources of revenue” for “from the proceeds of sales”, struck out introductory text “In the sale of all Indian allotments, or in leases, or assignment of leases covering, tribal or allotted lands for mineral, farming, grazing, business or other purposes, or in the sale of timber thereon” and provided for the use of discretion and the crediting of Indian tribal funds.

Credits

1920–1933 · 2 acts
  1. 1920Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 415
  2. 1933Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 158, 47 Stat. 1417.
Show as published

(Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, § 1, 41 Stat. 415; Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 158, 47 Stat. 1417.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc25.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-05-06

USLM identifier /us/usc/t25/s413