Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§305 Indian Arts and Crafts Board; creation and composition; per diem payments
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 7A— - PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE › § 305
Summary
Creates the Indian Arts and Crafts Board in the Interior Department and the Secretary must appoint five commissioners as soon as possible after August 27, 1935. At first, two serve two years, one three years, and two four years, as the Secretary decides; after that future commissioners serve four-year terms and a replacement serves the rest of that term. Government officials and private citizens may serve. The Board chooses one commissioner as chair. One or two vacancies do not stop the rest. Commissioners receive no salary but may get a daily payment for expenses up to the rate in section 5703 of title 5.
Full Legal Text
Title 25, §305
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A board is created in the Department of the Interior to be known as “Indian Arts and Crafts Board”, and hereinafter referred to as the Board. The Board shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as possible after August 27, 1935 and shall continue in office, two for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, and two for a term of four years from the date of their appointment, the term of each to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, but their successors shall be appointed for a term of four years except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he succeeds. Both public officers and private citizens shall be eligible for membership on the Board. The Board shall elect one of the commissioners as chairman. One or two vacancies on the Board shall not impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Board. The commissioner shall serve without compensation: Provided, That each Commissioner shall be paid per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses at a rate that does not exceed the rate authorized by section 5703 of title 5 to be paid to persons serving without compensation.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification “Section 5703 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 808) as heretofore or hereafter amended (5 U.S.C. 73b–2)” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1961—Pub. L. 87–23 substituted authorization for payment of per diem to Board members at the rate authorized for other persons serving without compensation for former provision reimbursing actual expenses, including travel expenses, subsistence and office overhead, incurred incidental to performance of duties.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
of 2010 Amendment Pub. L. 111–211, title I, § 101(a), July 29, 2010, 124 Stat. 2258, provided that: “This title [amending section 305d and 305e of this title and section 1159 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure] may be cited as the ‘Indian Arts and Crafts
Amendments
Act of 2010’.”
Short Title
of 2000 Amendment Pub. L. 106–497, § 1, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2219, provided that: “This Act [amending section 305e of this title] may be cited as the ‘Indian Arts and Crafts
Enforcement
Act of 2000’.”
Short Title
of 1990 Amendment Pub. L. 101–644, title I, § 101, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4662, provided that: “This title [enacting section 305d and 305e of this title, amending section 305a of this title and section 1158 and 1159 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 305e of this title] may be cited as the ‘Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990’.”
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.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
25 U.S.C. § 305
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73