§380 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

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Reservation superintendents may lease restricted allotments of deceased Indians — except for oil or gas mining — when no heirs or named inheritors are known, or when the heirs are known but the land is unused and they cannot agree on a lease within a three-month period because of many heirs, absence, or other cause. The Secretary of the Interior sets the rules, and lease income must be put into the estates or accounts of the rightful people according to their shares.

Title 25, §380

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Restricted allotments of deceased Indians may be leased, except for oil and gas mining purposes, by the superintendents of the reservation within which the lands are located (1) when the heirs or devisees of such decedents have not been determined and (2) when the heirs or devisees of the decedents have been determined, and such lands are not in use by any of the heirs and the heirs have not been able during a three-months’ period to agree upon a lease by reason of the number of the heirs, their absence from the reservation, or for other cause, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The proceeds derived from such leases shall be credited to the estates or other accounts of the individuals entitled thereto in accordance with their respective interests.

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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.

§380 Lease of inherited allotments by superintendent

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Title 25, §380

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