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[CITE: 25USC272]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 272. Superintendent of Indian schools

    There shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate, a person of knowledge and experience in the 
management, training, and practical education of children, to be 
Superintendent of Indian Schools, whose duty it shall be to visit and 
inspect the schools in which Indians are taught in whole or in part from 
appropriations from the United States Treasury, and report to the 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, what, in his judgment, are the defects, 
if any, in any of them, in system, in administration, or in means for 
the most effective advancement of the pupils therein toward civilization 
and self-support, and what changes are needed to remedy such defects as 
may exist, and to perform such other duties in connection with Indian 
schools as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

(Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 412, Sec. 10, 25 Stat. 1003.)

                          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.
