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[CITE: 25USC337]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                  CHAPTER 9--ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS
 
Sec. 337. Allotments in national forests

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to 
make allotments within the national forests in conformity with the 
general allotment laws, to any Indian occupying, living on, or having 
improvements on land included within any such national forest who is not 
entitled to an allotment on any existing Indian reservation, or for 
whose tribe no reservation has been provided, or whose reservation was 
not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All 
applications for allotments under the provisions of this section shall 
be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture who shall determine whether 
the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing 
purposes than for the timber found thereon; and if it be found that the 
lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing 
purposes, then the Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment to be 
made as herein provided.

(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, Sec. 31, 36 Stat. 863.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 353, 406, 564h, 697, 747 of 
this title; title 43 section 1617.
