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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs

§ 44. Employment of Indians

Statutory text

In the Indian Service Indians shall be employed as herders, teamsters, and laborers, and where practicable in all other employments in connection with the agencies and the Indian Service. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to enforce this provision.

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. 53–290 § 10 · 28 Stat. 286

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 44

    (Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 290, § 10, 28 Stat. 313.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 290, § 10, 28 Stat. 313.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. That in the Indian service Indians shall be employed as Employment of Indians as herders etc. herders, teamsters, and laborers, and where practicable in all other employments in connection with the agencies and the Indian service. And it. shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to enforce this provision.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

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

(Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 290, § 10, 28 Stat. 313.)

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