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[CITE: 43USC868]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
 
Sec. 868. Representation of Indian claimants in suits to 
        determine right to school lands
        
    In any suit instituted in the Supreme Court of the United States to 
determine the right of a State to what are commonly known as school 
lands within any Indian Reservation or any Indian cession where an 
Indian tribe claims any right to or interest in the lands in 
controversy, or in the disposition thereof by the United States, the 
right of such State may be fully tested and determined without making 
the Indian tribe, or any portion thereof, a party to the suit if the 
Secretary of the Interior is made a party thereto; and the duty of 
representing and defending the right or interest of the Indian tribe, or 
any portion thereof, in the matter shall devolve upon the Attorney 
General upon the request of such Secretary.

(Mar. 2, 1901, ch. 808, 31 Stat. 950.)
