Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-90
§19 Untitled Section
Title 25 › Chapter 9— ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS › § 19
Summary
Money Congress provides to pay a pueblo or its members under this Act must go to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Under the Secretary, the Bureau must use it to buy replacement land or water rights, or to provide reservoirs, irrigation, or other lasting improvements for pueblo lands.
Full Legal Text
Title 25, §19
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That all sums of money which may hereafter be appropriated by the Congress of the United States for the purpose of paying in whole or in part any liability found or decreed under this Act from the United States to any pueblo or to any of the Indians of any pueblo, shall be paid over to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall use such moneys at such times and in such amounts as may seem wise and proper for the purpose of the purchase of lands and water rights to replace those which have been lost to said pueblo or to said Indians, or for purchase or construction of reservoirs, irrigation works, or the making of other permanent improvements upon, or for the benefit of lands held by said pueblo or said Indians.
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25 U.S.C. § 19
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
May 14, 2026
Release point: 119-90