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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 283. Regulations for withholding rations for nonattendance at schools
The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, establish
such regulations as will prevent the issuing of rations or the
furnishing of subsistence either in money or in kind to the head of
any Indian family for or on account of any Indian child or children
between the ages of eight and twenty-one years who shall not have
attended school during the preceding year in accordance with such
regulations. This provision shall not apply to reservations or part
of reservations where sufficient school facilities have not been
furnished nor until full notice of such regulations shall have been
given to the Indians to be affected thereby.
The amount and value of subsistence so withheld shall be credited
to the tribe or tribes from whom the same is withheld, to be issued
and paid when in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior they
shall have fully complied with such regulations. The Secretary of
the Interior may in his discretion withhold rations, clothing and
other annuities from Indian parents or guardians who refuse or
neglect to send and keep their children of proper school age in
some school a reasonable portion of the year.
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