Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§159 Moneys due incompetents or orphans
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - DEPOSIT, CARE, AND INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS › § 159
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must settle accounts with people chosen by Indian councils to hold money for Indians who are incompetent or orphaned. That money must stay in the U.S. Treasury and will earn 6% interest each year until the Secretary orders it paid to the people who are entitled to it.
Full Legal Text
Title 25, §159
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The Secretary of the Interior is directed to cause settlements to be made with all persons appointed by the Indian councils to receive moneys due to incompetent or orphan Indians, and to require all moneys found to be due to such incompetent or orphan Indians to be returned to the Treasury; and all moneys so returned shall bear interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum, until paid by order of the Secretary of the Interior to those entitled to the same. No money shall be paid to any person appointed by any Indian council to receive moneys due to incompetent or orphan Indians, but the same shall remain in the Treasury of the United States until ordered to be paid by the Secretary to those entitled to receive the same, and shall bear 6 per centum interest until so paid.
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Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2108 derived from act July 5, 1862, ch. 135, § 6, 12 Stat. 529.
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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. § 159
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73