Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 20 — Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes
§ 856. Selection of school lands on ceded Indian reservations
Statutory text
Any State or Territory entitled to indemnity school lands or entitled to select lands for educational purposes under law existing prior to , may select such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof, purchased by the United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement.
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. 52–188 § 1 · 28 Stat. 876
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 856
(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 188, § 1, 28 Stat. 899.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 188, § 1, 28 Stat. 899.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Credits
(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 188, § 1, 28 Stat. 899.)