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[CITE: 25USC229]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
        CHAPTER 6--GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
 
Sec. 229. Injuries to property by Indians

    If any Indian, belonging to any tribe in amity with the United 
States, shall, within the Indian country, take or destroy the property 
of any person lawfully within such country, or shall pass from Indian 
country into any State or Territory inhabited by citizens of the United 
States, and there take, steal, or destroy, any horse, or other property 
belonging to any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, such 
citizen or inhabitant, his representative, attorney, or agent, may make 
application to the proper superintendent, agent, or subagent, who, upon 
being furnished with the necessary documents and proofs, shall, under 
the direction of the President, make application to the nation or tribe 
to which such Indian shall belong, for satisfaction; and if such nation 
or tribe shall neglect or refuse to make satisfaction, in a reasonable 
time not exceeding twelve months, such superintendent, agent, or 
subagent shall make return of his doings to the Commissioner of Indian 
Affairs, that such further steps may be taken as shall be proper, in the 
opinion of the President, to obtain satisfaction for the injury.

(R.S. Sec. 2156.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2156 derived from acts June 30, 1834, ch. 161, Sec. 17, 4 
Stat. 731; Feb. 28, 1859, ch. 66, Sec. 8, 11 Stat. 401.

                          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.


                              Indian Agents

    The services of Indian agents have been dispensed with. See note set 
out under section 64 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 230 of this title.
