25-U.S.C.-501
§501 – Acquisition of Agricultural and Grazing Lands For Indians; Title to Lands; Tax Exemption
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Title 25 > Chapter 14 > Subchapter VIII > Section 501
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- Reference: Section 501
- Legend: §501 – Acquisition of Agricultural and Grazing Lands For Indians; Title to Lands; Tax Exemption
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to acquire by purchase, relinquishment, gift, exchange, or assignment, any interest in lands, water rights, or surface rights to lands, within or without existing Indian reservations, including trust or otherwise restricted lands now in Indian ownership: Provided, That such lands shall be agricultural and grazing lands of good character and quality in proportion to the respective needs of the particular Indian or Indians for whom such purchases are made. Title to all lands so acquired shall be taken in the name of the United States, in trust for the tribe, band, group, or individual Indian for whose benefit such land is so acquired, and while the title thereto is held by the United States said lands shall be free from any and all taxes, save that the State of Oklahoma is authorized to levy and collect a gross-production tax, not in excess of the rate applied to production from lands in private ownership, upon all oil and gas produced from said lands, which said tax the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to cause to be paid.
(June 26, 1936, ch. 831, §1, 49 Stat. 1967.)
References to This Section
References to this section in subchapter II of chapter 14 of this title deemed to include section 82a of this title, see section 458aaa–10 of this title.
Short Title
Act June 26, 1936, ch. 831, 49 Stat. 1967, as amended, which enacted this subchapter, is popularly known as the Oklahoma Welfare Act and the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act.
U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage
25-U.S.C.-500D in the Legal Encyclopedia: Indians
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Subchapter LXXIII – Kickapoo Indians of Kansas and Oklahoma: Distribution of Judgment Fund in the Legal Encyclopedia: Oklahoma
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