Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 1 — Bureau of Indian Affairs
§ 5. Record of deeds by Indians requiring approval
Statutory text
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby empowered and directed to continue to make and keep a record of every deed executed by any Indian, his heirs, representatives, or assigns, which may require the approval of the President of the United States or of the Secretary of the Interior, whenever such approval shall have been given, and the deed so approved returned to said office.
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. 52–256 § 2 · 27 Stat. 272
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 5
(July 26, 1892, ch. 256, § 2, 27 Stat. 273.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 26, 1892, ch. 256, § 2, 27 Stat. 273.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby empowered Records of all deeds by Indians to be kept. and directed to continue to make and keep a record of every deed executed by any Indian, his heirs, representatives, or assigns, which may require the approval of the President of the United States or of the Secretary of the Interior, whenever such approval shall have been given, and the deed so approved returned to said office.
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
(July 26, 1892, ch. 256, § 2, 27 Stat. 273.)