Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§10 Employee to Sign Letters
Title 25 › CHAPTER 1 — BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS › § 10
Summary
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs can, if the Secretary of the Interior agrees, pick an Indian Office employee to sign letters that would normally need the commissioner’s or assistant commissioner’s signature. When that employee signs while chosen for this job, their signature counts the same as if the commissioner or assistant commissioner had signed.
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Title 25, §10
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The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may designate an employee of the Indian Office to sign letters of that office requiring the signature of the commissioner or assistant commissioner, and all signatures of such employee while acting under such designation shall have the same force and effect as if made by said commissioner or assistant commissioner.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section is from the Indian Department Appropriation Act, 1910.
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Transfer of Functions
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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.
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25 U.S.C. § 10
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102