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25 U.S.C. § 180 — Settling on or surveying lands belonging to Indians by treaty
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Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of $1,000. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove any such person from the lands.
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Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of $1,000. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove any such person from the lands.
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**(a)** Whenever a civil fine, penalty or pecuniary forfeiture is prescribed for the violation of an Act of Congress without specifying the mode of recovery or enforcement thereof, it may be recovered in a civil action.
**(b)** Unless otherwise provided by Act of Congress, whenever a forfeiture of property is prescribed as a penalty for violation of an Act of Congress and the seizure takes place on the high seas or on navigable waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, such forfeiture may be enforced by libel in admiralty but in cases of seizures on land the forfeiture may be enforced by a proceeding by libel which shall conform as near as may be to proceedings in admiralty.
**(c)** If a person is charged in a criminal case with a violation of an Act of Congress for which the civil or criminal forfeiture of property is authorized, the Government may include notice of the forfeiture in the indictment or information pursuant to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. If the defendant is convicted of the offense giving rise to the forfeiture, the court shall order the forfeiture of the property as part of the sentence in the criminal case pursuant to to 11 So in original. the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and [section 3554 of title 18](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title18-section3554&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code. The procedures in section 413 of the Controlled Substances Act ([21 U.S.C. 853](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title21-section853&num=0&edition=prelim)) apply to all stages of a criminal forfeiture proceeding, except that subsection (d) of such section applies only in cases in which the defendant is convicted of a violation of such Act.
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TITLE 25—INDIANS
§ 180
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
‘‘United States attorney’’ substituted in text for
‘‘United States district attorney’’ on authority of act
June 25, 1948. See section 541 of Title 28, Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure.
§ 176. Survey of reservations
Whenever it becomes necessary to survey any
Indian or other reservations, or any lands, the
same shall be surveyed under the direction and
control of the Bureau of Land Management, and
as nearly as may be in conformity to the rules
and regulations under which other public lands
are surveyed.
(R.S. § 2115; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July
16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
R.S. § 2115 derived from act Apr. 8, 1864, ch. 48, § 6, 13
Stat. 41.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,
and agencies of Department of the Interior, with cer-
tain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with
power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2,
eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees.
‘‘Bureau of Land Management’’ substituted in text
for ‘‘General Land Office’’ pursuant to section 403 of
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to
Title 5, which established the Bureau and transferred
thereto the powers and duties of the General Land Of-
fice.
§ 177. Purchases or grants of lands from Indians
No purchase, grant, lease, or other conveyance
of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from
any Indian nation or tribe of Indians, shall be of
any validity in law or equity, unless the same be
made by treaty or convention entered into pur-
suant to the Constitutio
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