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[CITE: 25USC408]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
  CHAPTER 12--LEASE, SALE, OR SURRENDER OF ALLOTTED OR UNALLOTTED LANDS
 
Sec. 408. Surrender of allotments by relinquishment for benefit 
        of children
        
    In any case where an Indian has an allotment of land, or any right, 
title, or interest in such an allotment, the Secretary of the Interior, 
in his discretion, may permit such Indian to surrender such allotment, 
or any right, title, or interest therein, by such formal relinquishment 
as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit 
of any of his or her children to whom no allotment of land shall have 
been made; and thereupon the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the 
estate so relinquished to be allotted to such child or children subject 
to all conditions which attached to it before such relinquishment.

(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, Sec. 3, 36 Stat. 856.)

                  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.
