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[CITE: 25USC280]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 280. Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious 
        organizations
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a 
patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper 
authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school 
work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as were prior to 
September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that date being actually 
and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for 
mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one 
hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station: 
Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer used for 
mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.

(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, Sec. 3, 42 Stat. 995.)

                          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.
