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§356 Allowance of Undisputed Claims of Restricted Allottees of Five Civilized Tribes

Title 25 › CHAPTER 9 — ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS › § 356

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma must handle and decide undisputed claims for money that belongs to restricted allottees or their heirs, and uncontested agricultural and mineral leases (but not oil and gas leases) made by those allottees or heirs. These items are not sent to the Secretary of the Interior. The Superintendent can pay, approve, reject, or disapprove those claims and leases. If someone is unhappy with the Superintendent’s decision, they can appeal to the Secretary of the Interior within 30 days of that decision.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §356

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No undisputed claims to be paid from individual moneys of restricted allottees, or their heirs, or uncontested agricultural and mineral leases (excluding oil and gas leases) made by individual restricted Indian allottees, or their heirs, shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior for approval, but all such undisputed claims or uncontested leases (except oil and gas leases) shall be paid, approved, rejected, or disapproved by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided, however, That any party aggrieved by any decision or order of the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma may appeal from the same to the Secretary of the Interior within thirty days from the date of said decision or order.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The clause “heretofore required to be approved under existing law by the Secretary of the Interior” after the words “but all such undisputed claims or uncontested leases (except oil and gas leases)” omitted from text as superfluous.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

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.

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Citation

25 U.S.C. § 356

Title 25, Indians

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102