28 U.S.C. § 1353 — Indian allotments
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 646 to r/title-28-JUDICIARY-AND-JUDICIAL-PROCEDURE · 116 words · no verdicts yet
Federal district courts may hear civil cases about a person's right to an Indian land allotment under a Federal law or treaty. A certified judgment for the claimant has the same effect as an Interior Department approval, with stated historical exclusions.
District* courts have original jurisdiction over a civil action involving the right of a person with any Indian blood or descent to a land allotment under a congressional Act or treaty. A claimant's judgment, properly certified to the Interior Secretary, has the same effect as if the Secretary had allowed and approved the allotment. This does not apply to land held on or before December 21, 1911, by the Five Civilized Tribes or the Osage Nation, or to land within the Quapaw Indian Agency*.
The district* courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any Act of Congress or treaty.
The judgment in favor of any claimant to an allotment of land shall have the same effect, when properly certified to the Secretary of the Interior, as if such allotment had been allowed and approved by him; but this provision shall not apply to any lands held on or before December 21, 1911, by either of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Osage Nation of Indians, nor to any of the lands within the Quapaw Indian Agency*.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 934.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 934
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 646 on 1948-06-25.
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