|
|
|
U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 336. Allotments to Indians making settlement
Where any Indian entitled to allotment under existing laws shall
make settlement upon any surveyed or unsurveyed lands of the United
States not otherwise appropriated, he or she shall be entitled,
upon application to the local land office for the district in which
the lands are located, to have the same allotted to him or her and
to his or her children in manner as provided by law for allotments
to Indians residing upon reservations, and such allotments to
Indians on the public domain as herein provided shall be made in
such areas as the President may deem proper, not to exceed,
however, forty acres of irrigable land or eighty acres of
nonirrigable agricultural land or one hundred sixty acres of
nonirrigable grazing land to any one Indian; and when such
settlement is made upon unsurveyed lands the grant to such Indians
shall be adjusted upon the survey of the lands so as to conform
thereto, and patent shall be issued to them for such lands in the
manner and with the restrictions provided in sections 348 and 349
of this title. And the fees to which the officers of such local
land office would have been entitled had such lands been entered
under the general laws for the disposition of the public lands
shall be paid to them from any moneys in the Treasury of the United
States not otherwise appropriated, upon a statement of an account
in their behalf for such fees by the Secretary of the Interior or
such officer as he may designate, and a certification of such
account to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of the
Interior.
|
|