25 U.S.C. § 350 — Surrender of patent, and selection of other land

This section has no lettered subsections; it is one rule with a proviso. Surrendering the patent: The Secretary of the Interior may, at his discretion, and whenever for good and sufficient reason he considers it in the Indians' best interest, permit an Indian who holds a patent — issued for land on the reservation to which that Indian belongs, under treaty or existing law, as part of the allotments made under the Act of February 8, 1887 — to surrender that patent. The Indian must formally relinquish, endorsed on the patent, all right, title, and interest in the land, and the surrendered patent is then canceled. Proviso — replacement land required: The Indian surrendering the patent must, in its place, select other land and receive a new patent for it, under the same terms as the Act of February 8, 1887.