§ 283. — Regulations for withholding rations for nonattendance at schools.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC283]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
Sec. 283. Regulations for withholding rations for nonattendance
at schools
The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, establish such
regulations as will prevent the issuing of rations or the furnishing of
subsistence either in money or in kind to the head of any Indian family
for or on account of any Indian child or children between the ages of
eight and twenty-one years who shall not have attended school during the
preceding year in accordance with such regulations. This provision shall
not apply to reservations or part of reservations where sufficient
school facilities have not been furnished nor until full notice of such
regulations shall have been given to the Indians to be affected thereby.
The amount and value of subsistence so withheld shall be credited to
the tribe or tribes from whom the same is withheld, to be issued and
paid when in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior they shall
have fully complied with such regulations. The Secretary of the Interior
may in his discretion withhold rations, clothing and other annuities
from Indian parents or guardians who refuse or neglect to send and keep
their children of proper school age in some school a reasonable portion
of the year.
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 209, Sec. 1, 27 Stat. 628, 635.)
