§293 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may sell, to the highest bidder, any land the United States bought for Indian day schools or other Indian administrative uses when it is no longer needed. Sales are limited to tracts of 160 acres or less and must follow rules the Secretary sets and the regulations in chapters 1–11 of Title 40 and Division C of Subtitle I of Title 41, except sections 3302, 3306(f), 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4104, 4710, and 4711. Proceeds go into the U.S. Treasury, except if tribal funds paid the purchase price; then the net proceeds are credited to that tribe. Buyers receive full ownership by a patent when the land can be described by the legal survey, or by a deed from the Secretary with boundary descriptions that identify the land.

Title 25, §293

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Subject to applicable regulations under chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except section 3302, 3306(f), 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4104, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41 the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be sold, to the highest bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe any tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for day school or other Indian administrative uses, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part thereof is no longer needed for the original purpose; the proceeds therefrom in all cases to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; title to be evidenced by a patent in fee simple for such lands as can be described in terms of the legal survey, or by deed duly executed by the Secretary of the Interior containing such metes-and-bounds description as will identify the land so conveyed as the land which had been purchased: Provided, That where the purchase price was paid from tribal funds, the net proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respective tribes of Indians.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification In text, “chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except section 3302, 3306(f), 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4104, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41” substituted for “the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Amendments

1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted reference to applicable

Regulations

of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, at beginning of section; struck out “net” before “proceeds” in clause immediately following first semicolon; and, in proviso, substituted “the net proceeds” for “such proceeds”.

§293 Sale of lands purchased for day school or other Indian administrative uses