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Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73not60

§276 Vacant Military Posts or Barracks for Schools; Detail of Army Officers

Title 25 › Chapter 7— EDUCATION OF INDIANS › § 276

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army can set aside empty military posts or barracks to open regular and job-training schools for Indian youth from nomadic tribes with treaty claims, as long as the sites are not needed for military use. The Army can assign one or more officers to work at each school under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Funds already provided or that will be provided for general Indian education can be spent, under the Secretary of the Interior’s direction, to teach Indian youth at those posts, institutions, and schools he thinks are useful or as Congress allows.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §276

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The Secretary of the Army is authorized to set aside, for use in the establishment of normal and industrial training schools for Indian youth from the nomadic tribes having educational treaty claims upon the United States, any vacant posts or barracks, so long as they may not be required for military occupation, and to detail one or more officers of the Army for duty in connection with Indian education, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, at each such school so established: Provided, That moneys appropriated or to be appropriated for general purposes of education among the Indians may be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the education of Indian youth at such posts, institutions, and schools as he may consider advantageous, or as Congress from time to time may authorize and provide.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain functions relating to real property under jurisdiction of Department of the Air Force from Secretary of the Army to Secretary of the Air Force, see Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 14 [§ 2(29)], eff.
July 1, 1948, and 40 [App. A(53)],
July 22, 1949. For

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

25 U.S.C. § 276

Title 25 — Indians

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60