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[CITE: 25USC158]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
    CHAPTER 4--PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS
 
     SUBCHAPTER III--DEPOSIT, CARE, AND INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS
 
Sec. 158. Investment of proceeds of lands

    The Secretary of the Interior shall invest in a manner which shall 
be in his judgment most safe and beneficial for the fund, all moneys 
that may be received under treaties containing stipulations for the 
payment to the Indians, annually, of interest upon the proceeds of the 
lands ceded by them; and he shall make no investment of such moneys, or 
of any portion, at a lower rate of interest than 5 per centum per annum.

(R.S. Sec. 2096.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2096 derived from act Jan. 9, 1837, ch. 1, Sec. 4, 5 Stat. 
135.

                          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, 
Secs. 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.
