Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs
§ 46. Preference to Indians in employment of clerical, mechanical, and other help
Statutory text
Preference shall at all times, as far as practicable, be given to Indians in the employment of clerical, mechanical, and other help on reservations and about agencies.
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.
Pub. L. 47–163 § 6 · 22 Stat. 68
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 46
May 17, 1882, ch. 163, § 6, 22 Stat. 88
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 17, 1882, ch. 163, § 6, 22 Stat. 88Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. Six.— That the President may, in his discretion, consolidate two Consolidation of agencies, and Indian tribes. or more agencies into one, and where Indians are located on reservations created by executive order be may, with the consent of the tribes to be affected thereby, expressed in the usual manner, consolidate one or Abolition of agencies. more tribes, and abolish such agencies as are thereby rendered unnecessary; and preference shall at all times, as far as practicable, be given to Indians in the employment of clerical, mechanical, and other help on reservations and about agencies.
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
1882–1884 · 2 acts
- 1882May 17, 1882, ch. 163, § 6, 22 Stat. 88
- 1884July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 6, 23 Stat. 97.
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(May 17, 1882, ch. 163, § 6, 22 Stat. 88; July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 6, 23 Stat. 97.)