§ 280a. — Land in Alaska for schools or missions; general land laws.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC280a]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
Sec. 280a. Land in Alaska for schools or missions; general land
laws
The Indians or persons conducting schools or missions in the
Territory of Alaska shall not be disturbed in the possession of any
lands actually in their use or occupation on June 6, 1900, and the land,
at any station not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, occupied on
said date as missionary stations among the Indian tribes in the section,
with the improvements thereon erected by or for such societies, shall be
continued in the occupancy of the several religious societies to which
the missionary stations respectively belong, and the Secretary of the
Interior is directed to have such lands surveyed in compact form as
nearly as practicable and patents issued for the same to the several
societies to which they belong; but nothing contained in this Act shall
be construed to put in force in the Territory the general land laws of
the United States.
(June 6, 1900, ch. 786, Sec. 27, 31 Stat. 330.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means act June 6, 1900, ch. 786, 31
Stat. 321, as amended. For complete classification of Title I of this
act to the Code, see Tables. Title III of this act provided for the
Alaska Civil Code.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 356 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Prior Provisions
Similar provisions were contained in act May 17, 1884, ch. 53,
Sec. 8, 23 Stat. 26, which provided in part that the Indians or other
persons in the district should not be disturbed in the possession of any
lands actually in their use or occupation or claimed by them, but
reserved for future legislation the terms under which such persons might
acquire title. That section contained a further provision, similar to
the provision contained in this section, continuing lands occupied as
missionary stations in the occupancy of the several religious societies.
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.
Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73, Stat. c16, as
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
