Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§161c Surplus Above Requirements of Fund; Transfer to Surplus Fund of Treasury; Retransfer
Title 25 › CHAPTER 4 — PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › SUBCHAPTER III — DEPOSIT, CARE, AND INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS › § 161c
Summary
If the Secretary of the Interior decides money in a tribe's fund account is not needed for its original purpose, that money must be moved into the Treasury's surplus fund. Any part of it later needed for that purpose can be put back into the tribe's account on the Treasury's records at any time without Congress having to approve it.
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Title 25, §161c
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The amount held in any tribal fund account which, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, is not required for the purpose for which the fund was created, shall be covered into the surplus fund of the Treasury; and so much thereof as is found to be necessary for such purpose may at any time thereafter be restored to the account on books of the Treasury without appropriation by Congress.
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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.
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25 U.S.C. § 161c
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102