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U.S. Code as of:
01/02/2006
Section 378. Partition of allotment among heirs; patents
If the Secretary of the Interior shall find that any inherited
trust allotment or allotments are capable of partition to the
advantage of the heirs, he may cause such lands to be partitioned
among them, regardless of their competency, patents in fee to be
issued to the competent heirs for their shares and trust patents to
be issued to the incompetent heirs for the lands respectively or
jointly set apart to them, the trust period to terminate in
accordance with the terms of the original patent or order of
extension of the trust period set out in said patent.
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