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25 U.S.C. § 280 — Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations

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This law lets the Secretary of the Interior grant land patents to missionary boards on Indian reservations. Each board can get no more than 160 acres per mission station. If a board stops using the land for mission or school use, it returns to the Indian owners.

The Secretary of the Interior must issue a land patent — an official ownership document — to the properly authorized missionary board or other proper authority of any religious organization doing mission or school work on an Indian reservation. This only covers land that, before September 21, 1922, had already been set aside for that organization and was actually being used for mission or school purposes. No organization can receive more than 160 acres at any one station this way. The patent must state that if the land stops being used for mission or school purposes, it goes back to the Indian owners.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as were prior to September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that date being actually and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station: Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer used for mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.

Source credit: (Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, § 3, 42 Stat. 995.)

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  • 1922Enacted · Act of Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367 · 42 Stat. 995

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 367 on 1922-09-21.

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