§ 292a. — Discontinuance of boarding and day schools having small attendance.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC292a]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
Sec. 292a. Discontinuance of boarding and day schools having
small attendance
All reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average
attendance in any year of less than forty-five and eighty pupils,
respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the
ensuing fiscal year. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be
transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public
schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding
schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: Provided, That
all day schools with an average attendance in any year of less then
eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing
fiscal year: Provided further, That all moneys appropriated for any
school discontinued pursuant to this section or for other cause shall be
returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States.
(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 705, 45 Stat. 1576.)
Codification
Section is from the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1930.
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation
acts:
Mar. 7, 1928, ch. 137, 45 Stat. 215.
Jan. 12, 1927, ch. 27, 44 Stat. 947.
May 10, 1926, ch. 277, 44 Stat. 468.
Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1155.
June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 404.
Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1182.
May 24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 562.
Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 119, 41 Stat. 1227.
Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 75, 41 Stat. 410.
