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[CITE: 25USC277]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 277. Former Apache military post established as Theodore 
        Roosevelt Indian School
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish and 
maintain the former Fort Apache military post as an Indian boarding 
school for the purpose of carrying out treaty obligations, to be known 
as the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School: Provided, That the Fort Apache 
military post, and land appurtenant thereto, shall remain in the 
possession and custody of the Secretary of the Interior so long as they 
shall be required for Indian school purposes.

(Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1187.)

                          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.


           Lands Held in Trust for White Mountain Apache Tribe

    Pub. L. 86-392, Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 8, provided: ``That all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands, 
together with the improvements thereon, included in the former Fort 
Apache Military Reservation, created by Executive order of February 1, 
1877, and subsequently set aside by the Act of January 24, 1923 (42 
Stat. 1187) [this section], as a site for the Theodore Roosevelt School, 
located within the boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, 
Arizona, are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust 
for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, subject to the right of the 
Secretary of the Interior to use any part of the land and improvements 
for administrative or school purposes for as long as they are needed for 
that purpose.''
