2013 US Code
Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 7 - EDUCATION OF INDIANS (§§ 271 - 304b)
Section 280 - Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 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 7 - EDUCATION OF INDIANS Sec. 280 - Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations |
Contains | section 280 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, §3, 42 Stat. 995. |
Statutes at Large References | 42 Stat. 995 64 Stat. 1262 |
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as were prior to September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that date being actually and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station: Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer used for mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.
(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, §3, 42 Stat. 995.)
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSFor 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. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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