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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 46 — Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance

§ 5341. Donations for Indians; use of gifts; annual report to Congress

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior may accept donations of funds or other property for the advancement of the Indian race, and he may use the donated property in accordance with the terms of the donation in furtherance of any program authorized by other provision of law for the benefit of Indians. An annual report shall be made to the Congress on donations received and allocations made from such donations. This report shall include administrative costs and other pertinent data.

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. 71–171 · 46 Stat. 169

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 5341

    Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 171, 46 Stat. 1106

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 171, 46 Stat. 1106

  2. Pub. L. 90–333 · 82 Stat. 171

    1. Substituted · 25 U.S.C. § 5341

      Pub. L. 90–333 expanded area of permissible uses to which Secretary may put donated property by substituting provisions allowing inclusion of programs otherwise authorized by law intended to benefit Indians for provisions limiting permissible uses to programs otherwise authorized by law only if it could be shown that property would benefit a particular Indian institution or individual

    2. Inserted · 25 U.S.C. § 5341

      Pub. L. 90–333 expanded area of permissible uses to which Secretary may put donated property by inserted provisions for an annual report to Congress on donations received and allocations made from such donations

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–333 expanded area of permissible uses to which Secretary may put donated property by substituting provisions allowing inclusion of programs otherwise authorized by law intended to benefit Indians for provisions limiting permissible uses to programs otherwise authorized by law only if it could be shown that property would benefit a particular Indian institution or individual, and inserted provisions for an annual report to Congress on donations received and allocations made from such donations.

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Johnson-O’Malley Act which comprises this subchapter, nor as part of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act which comprises this chapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 451 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–333 expanded area of permissible uses to which Secretary may put donated property by substituting provisions allowing inclusion of programs otherwise authorized by law intended to benefit Indians for provisions limiting permissible uses to programs otherwise authorized by law only if it could be shown that property would benefit a particular Indian institution or individual, and inserted provisions for an annual report to Congress on donations received and allocations made from such donations.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective , of provisions in this section relating to making an annual report to Congress, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 113 of House Document No. 103–7.

Credits

1931–1968 · 2 acts
  1. 1931Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 171, 46 Stat. 1106
  2. 1968Pub. L. 90–333, , 82 Stat. 171.
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(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 171, 46 Stat. 1106; Pub. L. 90–333, , 82 Stat. 171.)

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