§ 280. — Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC280]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
Sec. 280. Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious
organizations
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue a
patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper
authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school
work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as were prior to
September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that date being actually
and beneficially used and occupied by such organization solely for
mission or school purposes, the area so patented to not exceed one
hundred and sixty acres to any one organization at any station:
Provided, That such patent shall provide that when no longer used for
mission or school purposes said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.
(Sept. 21, 1922, ch. 367, Sec. 3, 42 Stat. 995.)
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 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.
