§ 868. — Representation of Indian claimants in suits to determine right to school lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC868]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
Sec. 868. Representation of Indian claimants in suits to
determine right to school lands
In any suit instituted in the Supreme Court of the United States to
determine the right of a State to what are commonly known as school
lands within any Indian Reservation or any Indian cession where an
Indian tribe claims any right to or interest in the lands in
controversy, or in the disposition thereof by the United States, the
right of such State may be fully tested and determined without making
the Indian tribe, or any portion thereof, a party to the suit if the
Secretary of the Interior is made a party thereto; and the duty of
representing and defending the right or interest of the Indian tribe, or
any portion thereof, in the matter shall devolve upon the Attorney
General upon the request of such Secretary.
(Mar. 2, 1901, ch. 808, 31 Stat. 950.)
