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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 13 — Ceded Indian Lands

§ 425. Classification and appraisement of unallotted and unreserved lands

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be classified or reclassified and appraised or reappraised, in such manner as he may deem advisable, the unallotted or otherwise unreserved lands within any Indian reservation opened to settlement and entry but not classified and appraised in the manner provided for in the Act or Acts opening such reservations to settlement and entry, or where the existing classification or appraisement is, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, erroneous.

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. 62–155 · 37 Stat. 125

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 425

    (June 6, 1912, ch. 155, 37 Stat. 125.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 6, 1912, ch. 155, 37 Stat. 125.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1196 of Title 43, Public Lands, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, where it had originally appeared prior to transfer to Title 43.

Credits

(June 6, 1912, ch. 155, 37 Stat. 125.)

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