Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§340 Extension of certain provisions
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS › § 340
Summary
Applies the Act of February 8, 1887 to the Confederated Wea, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankeshaw, and Western Miami tribes in the northeastern former Indian Territory and to their reservation. Excludes section 349 and other later provisions.
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Title 25, §340
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The provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887, are declared to extend to and are made applicable to the Confederated Wea, Peoria, Kaskaskia, and Piankeshaw tribes of Indians, and the Western Miami tribe of Indians, located in the northeastern part of the former Indian Territory and to their reservation, in the same manner and to the same extent as if said tribes had not been excepted from the provisions of said act, except as to section 349 of this title, and as otherwise hereinafter provided.
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Act of February 8, 1887, referred to in text, was in the original “chapter One hundred and Nineteen of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty seven, entitled ‘An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes,’ ”. The Act appears in 24 Stat. 388, and is popularly known as the Indian General Allotment Act. For classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 331 of this title and Tables.
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25 U.S.C. § 340
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73