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[CITE: 25USC72]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                   CHAPTER 3--AGREEMENTS WITH INDIANS
 
                         SUBCHAPTER I--TREATIES
 
Sec. 72. Abrogation of treaties

    Whenever the tribal organization of any Indian tribe is in actual 
hostility to the United States, the President is authorized, by 
proclamation, to declare all treaties with such tribe abrogated by such 
tribe if in his opinion the same can be done consistently with good 
faith and legal and national obligations.

(R.S. Sec. 2080.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2080 derived from act July 5, 1862, ch. 135, Sec. 1, 12 
Stat. 528.
