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25 U.S.C. § 351 — Patents with restrictions for lots in villages in Washington
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, whenever in his opinion it shall be conducive to the best welfare and interest of the Indians living within any Indian village on any of the Indian reservations in the State of Washington to issue a patent to each of said Indians for the village or town lot occupied by him, which patent shall contain restrictions against the alienation of the lot described therein to persons other than members of the tribe, except on approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and if any such Indian shall die subsequent to June 25, 1910, and before receiving patent to the lot occupied by him, the lot to which such Indian would have been entitled if living shall be patented in his name and shall be disposed of as provided for in [section 372 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section372&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, whenever in his opinion it shall be conducive to the best welfare and interest of the Indians living within any Indian village on any of the Indian reservations in the State of Washington to issue a patent to each of said Indians for the village or town lot occupied by him, which patent shall contain restrictions against the alienation of the lot described therein to persons other than members of the tribe, except on approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and if any such Indian shall die subsequent to June 25, 1910, and before receiving patent to the lot occupied by him, the lot to which such Indian would have been entitled if living shall be patented in his name and shall be disposed of as provided for in [section 372 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section372&num=0&edition=prelim).
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When any Indian to whom an allotment of land has been made, or may hereafter be made, dies before the expiration of the trust period and before the issuance of a fee simple patent, without having made a will disposing of said allotment as hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Interior, upon notice and hearing, under the Indian Land Consolidation Act [[25 U.S.C. 2201](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section2201&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] or a tribal probate code approved under such Act and pursuant to such rules as he may prescribe, shall ascertain the legal heirs of such decedent, and his decisions shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent as determinations rendered under [section 373 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section373&num=0&edition=prelim). If the Secretary of the Interior decides the heir or heirs of such decedent competent to manage their own affairs, he shall issue to such heir or heirs a patent in fee for the allotment of such decedent; if he shall decide one or more of the heirs to be incompetent, he may, in his discretion, cause such lands to be sold: Provided, That if the Secretary of the Interior shall find that the lands of the decedent are capable of partition to the advantage of the heirs, he may cause the shares of such as are competent, upon their petition, to be set aside and patents in fee to be issued to them therefor. All sales of lands allotted to Indians authorized by this or any other Act shall be made under such rules and regulations and upon such terms as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and he shall require a deposit of 10 per centum of the purchase price at the time of the sale. Should the purchaser fail to comply wi
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TITLE 25—INDIANS
§ 352b
General Allotment Act. For classification of this Act to
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 331
of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATION
Provisions relating to the grant of citizenship to cer-
tain Indians born within the territorial limits of the
United States were omitted in view of act June 2, 1924,
ch. 233, 43 Stat. 253, which granted citizenship to all
non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of
the United States. See section 1401 of Title 8, Aliens
and Nationality.
§ 350. Surrender of patent, and selection of other
land
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in
his discretion, and whenever for good and suffi-
cient reason he shall consider it to be for the
best interest of the Indians, in making allot-
ments under the act of February 8, 1887, to per-
mit any Indian to whom a patent has been
issued for land on the reservation to which such
Indian belongs, under treaty or existing law, to
surrender such patent with formal relinquish-
ment by such Indian to the United States of all
his or her right, title, and interest in the land
conveyed thereby, properly indorsed thereon,
and to cancel such surrendered patent: Provided,
That the Indian so surrendering the same shall
make a selection, in lieu thereof, of other land
and receive patent therefor, under the provi-
sions of the act of February 8, 1887.
(Oct. 19, 1888, ch. 1214, § 2, 25 Stat. 612.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
Act of February 8, 1887, referred to in text, was in the
original ‘‘the statute aforesaid’’ and ‘‘the act of Feb-
ruary eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven’’, re-
spectively. The act appears in 24 Stat. 388, and is popu-
larly known as the Indian General Allotment Act. For
classification of
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