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[CITE: 25USC463e]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
    SUBCHAPTER V--PROTECTION OF INDIANS AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES
 
Sec. 463e. Exchanges of land

    For the purpose of effecting land consolidations between Indians and 
non-Indians within the reservation, the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to 
acquire through purchase, exchange, or relinquishment, any interest in 
lands, water rights, or surface rights to lands within said reservation. 
Exchanges of lands hereunder shall be made on the basis of equal value 
and the value of improvements on lands to be relinquished to the Indians 
or by Indians to non-Indians shall be given due consideration and 
allowance made therefor in the valuation of lieu lands. This section 
shall apply to tribal, trust, or otherwise restricted Indian allotments 
whether the allottee be living or deceased.

(Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 662, Sec. 2, 53 Stat. 1351.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 463f, 463g of this title.
