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[CITE: 25USC451]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
    SUBCHAPTER II--INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE
 
                      Part B--Contracts With States
 
Sec. 451. Donations for Indians; use of gifts; annual report to 
        Congress
        
    The Secretary of the Interior may accept donations of funds or other 
property for the advancement of the Indian race, and he may use the 
donated property in accordance with the terms of the donation in 
furtherance of any program authorized by other provision of law for the 
benefit of Indians. An annual report shall be made to the Congress on 
donations received and allocations made from such donations. This report 
shall include administrative costs and other pertinent data.

(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 171, 46 Stat. 1106; Pub. L. 90-333, June 8, 1968, 82 
Stat. 171.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Johnson-O'Malley Act which 
comprises this part, nor as part of the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act which comprises this subchapter.


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-333 expanded area of permissible uses to which 
Secretary may put donated property by substituting provisions allowing 
inclusion of programs otherwise authorized by law intended to benefit 
Indians for provisions limiting permissible uses to programs otherwise 
authorized by law only if it could be shown that property would benefit 
a particular Indian institution or individual, and inserted provisions 
for an annual report to Congress on donations received and allocations 
made from such donations.


                  Termination of Reporting Requirements

    For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in this 
section relating to making an annual report to Congress, see section 
3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 
of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 113 of House Document No. 103-
7.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 458bbb of this title; title 
22 section 2124c.
