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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry

§ 150. Withdrawals of land for Indian reservations prohibited

Statutory text

No public lands of the United States shall be withdrawn by Executive Order, proclamation, or otherwise, for or as an Indian reservation except by act of Congress.

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. 66–4 § 27 · 41 Stat. 3

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 150

    (June 30, 1919, ch. 4, § 27, 41 Stat. 34.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 30, 1919, ch. 4, § 27, 41 Stat. 34.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 27. That hereafter no public lands of the United States shall be withdrawn by Executive Order, proclamation, or otherwise, for or as an Indian reservation except by act of Congress.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 30, 1919, ch. 4, § 27, 41 Stat. 34.)

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