§336 Allotments to Indians Making Settlement

Summary

If an Indian who is allowed an allotment under current law settles on surveyed or unsurveyed public land that is not already taken, they can apply at the local land office to have that land allotted to them and their children in the same way allotments are made for Indians on reservations. The President decides the areas for these allotments. No one Indian may get more than 40 acres of irrigable land, 80 acres of nonirrigable farm land, or 160 acres of nonirrigable grazing land. If the land was unsurveyed, the grant will be adjusted after the survey and an official patent (title) will be issued with the same procedures and restrictions in sections 348 and 349. Any fees the local land office officers would have gotten under the general public-land laws must be paid from U.S. Treasury funds not otherwise appropriated, after the Secretary of the Interior submits the account and certifies it to the Secretary of the Treasury.