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[CITE: 25USC403a-1]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
  CHAPTER 12--LEASE, SALE, OR SURRENDER OF ALLOTTED OR UNALLOTTED LANDS
 
Sec. 403a-1. Sale or partition by owners of interests in 
        allotted lands in the Tulalip Reservation; termination of 
        Federal title, trust, and restrictions
        
    Any owner of an interest in any tract of land in the Tulalip 
Reservation, Washington, in which any undivided interest is now or 
hereafter held in trust by the United States for an Indian, or is now or 
hereafter owned by an Indian subject to restrictions against alienation 
or taxation imposed by the United States, may commence in a State court 
of competent jurisdiction an action for the partition in kind or for the 
sale of such land in accordance with the laws of the State. For the 
purpose of any such action the Indian owners shall be regarded as vested 
with an unrestricted fee simple title to the land, the United States 
shall not be a necessary party to the proceeding, and any partition or 
conveyance of the land pursuant to the proceedings shall divest the 
United States of title to the land, terminate the Federal trust, and 
terminate all restrictions against alienation or taxation of the land 
imposed by the United States.

(June 18, 1956, ch. 400, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 290.)
