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[CITE: 25USC293]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 293. Sale of lands purchased for day school or other Indian 
        administrative uses
        
    Subject to applicable regulations under the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended [40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.], 
the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be sold, to the 
highest bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe any 
tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for day 
school or other Indian administrative uses, not exceeding one hundred 
and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part thereof is no 
longer needed for the original purpose; the proceeds therefrom in all 
cases to be paid into the Treasury of the United States; title to be 
evidenced by a patent in fee simple for such lands as can be described 
in terms of the legal survey, or by deed duly executed by the Secretary 
of the Interior containing such metes-and-bounds description as will 
identify the land so conveyed as the land which had been purchased: 
Provided, That where the purchase price was paid from tribal funds, the 
net proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of the respective tribes of Indians.

(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 146, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 973; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, 
Sec. 2(17), 65 Stat. 707.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 
377, as amended. Provisions of the Act relating to disposal of 
Government property are classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 et seq.) of 
Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 471 of Title 40, and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1951--Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted reference to applicable 
regulations of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949, as amended, at beginning of section; struck out ``net'' before 
``proceeds'' in clause immediately following first semicolon; and, in 
proviso, substituted ``the net proceeds'' for ``such proceeds''.
