25 U.S.C. § 279 — Rations to mission schools

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Mission schools on Indian reservations can receive food and clothing rations for enrolled Indian children. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs sets the rules. Children get the same rations they'd be entitled to under treaty if living with their parents.

Mission schools located on an Indian reservation may receive rations of food and clothing for the Indian children who are properly enrolled there. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs sets the rules and regulations that control this. The amount given matches what each child would be entitled to receive under treaty terms if that child were instead living with their own parents.

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Mission schools on an Indian reservation may, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, receive for such Indian children duly enrolled therein, the rations of food and clothing to which said children would be entitled under treaty stipulations if such children were living with their parents.

Source credit: (June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 326.)

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1906Enacted · Act of June 21, 1906, ch. 3504 · 34 Stat. 326

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 3504 on 1906-06-21.

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