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25 U.S.C. § 280a — Land in Alaska for schools or missions; general land laws

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This law protects Alaska Native and mission groups who were already using land as of June 6, 1900. Religious societies keep occupying their missionary stations, up to 640 acres each, with their buildings. The Secretary of the Interior must survey that land and issue patents to those societies.

Indians, and any people running schools or missions in the Territory of Alaska, cannot be removed from land they were actually using or occupying on June 6, 1900. At each missionary station among Alaska's Indian tribes, up to 640 acres of land that was occupied on that date — along with any buildings the religious society built there — stays in that society's hands. The Secretary of the Interior must have this land surveyed into compact plots, as much as practical, and must issue patents for it to the religious societies that occupy it. But nothing in this law makes the general federal land laws apply within the Territory of Alaska.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Indians or persons conducting schools or missions in the Territory of Alaska shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation on June 6, 1900, and the land, at any station not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, occupied on said date as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in the section, with the improvements thereon erected by or for such societies, shall be continued in the occupancy of the several religious societies to which the missionary stations respectively belong, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to have such lands surveyed in compact form as nearly as practicable and patents issued for the same to the several societies to which they belong; but nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to put in force in the Territory the general land laws of the United States.

Source credit: (June 6, 1900, ch. 786, § 27, 31 Stat. 330.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1900Enacted · Act of June 6, 1900, ch. 786 · 31 Stat. 330

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 786 on 1900-06-06.

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