1995 US Code
Title 25 - INDIANS
CHAPTER 5 - PROTECTION OF INDIANS
Sec. 177 - Purchases or grants of lands from Indians
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 25 - INDIANS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 25 - INDIANS CHAPTER 5 - PROTECTION OF INDIANS Sec. 177 - Purchases or grants of lands from Indians |
Contains | section 177 |
Date | 1995 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 1996 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | R.S. §2116. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 4 Stat. 730 |
§177. Purchases or grants of lands from Indians
No purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indian nation or tribe of Indians, shall be of any validity in law or equity, unless the same be made by treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the Constitution. Every person who, not being employed under the authority of the United States, attempts to negotiate such treaty or convention, directly or indirectly, or to treat with any such nation or tribe of Indians for the title or purchase of any lands by them held or claimed, is liable to a penalty of ,000. The agent of any State who may be present at any treaty held with Indians under the authority of the United States, in the presence and with the approbation of the commissioner of the United States appointed to hold the same, may, however, propose to, and adjust with, the Indians the compensation to be made for their claim to lands within such State, which shall be extinguished by treaty.
(R.S. §2116.)
CodificationR.S. §2116 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, §12, 4 Stat. 730.
Cross ReferencesPatents to be held in trust, descent and partition, see section 348 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 941k, 1724, 1757, 1772c, 1774f of this title.
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