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[CITE: 25USC378]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
         CHAPTER 10--DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION; HEIRS OF ALLOTTEE
 
Sec. 378. Partition of allotment among heirs; patents

    If the Secretary of the Interior shall find that any inherited trust 
allotment or allotments are capable of partition to the advantage of the 
heirs, he may cause such lands to be partitioned among them, regardless 
of their competency, patents in fee to be issued to the competent heirs 
for their shares and trust patents to be issued to the incompetent heirs 
for the lands respectively or jointly set apart to them, the trust 
period to terminate in accordance with the terms of the original patent 
or order of extension of the trust period set out in said patent.

(May 18, 1916, ch. 125, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 127.)
