2021 US Code
Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 4 - Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians
Subchapter II - Disbursement of Moneys and Supplies
Sec. 137 - Supplies distributed to able-bodied males on condition
| 25 U.S.C. § 137 (2021) |
| §137. Supplies distributed to able-bodied males on condition |
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For the purpose of inducing Indians to labor and become self-supporting, it is provided that, in distributing the supplies and annuities to the Indians for whom the same are appropriated, the agent distributing the same shall require all able-bodied male Indians between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to perform service upon the reservation, for the benefit of themselves or of the tribe, at a reasonable rate, to be fixed by the agent in charge, and to an amount equal in value to the supplies to be delivered; and the allowances provided for such Indians shall be distributed to them only upon condition of the performance of such labor, under such rules and regulations as the agent may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, by written order, except any particular tribe, or portion of tribe, from the operation of this provision where he deems it proper and expedient. |
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(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 132, §3, 18 Stat. 449.) |
| STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
INDIAN AGENTS
The services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set out under section 64 of this title. EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For 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. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 25 - INDIANS |
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| Title 25 - INDIANS CHAPTER 4 - PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS SUBCHAPTER II - DISBURSEMENT OF MONEYS AND SUPPLIES Sec. 137 - Supplies distributed to able-bodied males on condition |
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| January 3, 2022 |
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| 18 Stat. 449 64 Stat. 1262 |
