Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-84
§19 Untitled Section
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS › § 19
Summary
All money Congress provides to pay claims under this Act must be given to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau, under the Secretary of the Interior, must use that money when and how it thinks best to buy lands or water rights to replace what a pueblo or its people lost, or to buy or build reservoirs, irrigation systems, or make other lasting improvements for lands held by the pueblo or its members.
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Title 25, §19
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That all sums of money which may hereafter be appropriated by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of paying in whole or in part any liability found or decreed under this Act from the United States to any pueblo or to any of the Indians of any pueblo, shall be paid over to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall use such moneys at such times and in such amounts as may seem wise and proper for the purpose of the purchase of lands and water rights to replace those which have been lost to said pueblo or to said Indians, or for purchase or construction of reservoirs, irrigation works, or the making of other permanent improvements upon, or for the benefit of lands held by said pueblo or said Indians.
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25 U.S.C. § 19
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 22, 2026
Release point: 119-84