Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§158 Investment of proceeds of lands
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - DEPOSIT, CARE, AND INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS › § 158
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must invest all money that comes from treaties that promise Indians annual interest on money from lands they gave up. He must choose investments he thinks are safest and best for the fund, and he cannot put any of the money into investments that pay less than 5 percent per year.
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Title 25, §158
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The Secretary of the Interior shall invest in a manner which shall be in his judgment most safe and beneficial for the fund, all moneys that may be received under treaties containing stipulations for the payment to the Indians, annually, of interest upon the proceeds of the lands ceded by them; and he shall make no investment of such moneys, or of any portion, at a lower rate of interest than 5 per centum per annum.
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Codification R.S. § 2096 derived from act Jan. 9, 1837, ch. 1, § 4, 5 Stat. 135.
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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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25 U.S.C. § 158
Title 25 — Indians
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Apr 6, 2026
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