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1See References in Text note below.

Secretary of the Interior may estimate to be required to pay for supplies purchased through Indian warehouses for the Indian field service; and

the expenditure of the said Indian Service supply fund for the purpose stated is hereby authorized, necessary adjustments to be made thereafter to the end that each appropriation and

fund ultimately will be charged only with the

cost of the supplies legally chargeable thereto.

(Jan. 12, 1927, ch. 27, §1, 44 Stat. 939.)

SUBCHAPTER III—DEPOSIT, CARE, AND

INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS

§ 151. Deposits in bank by disbursing agents

Any United States Indian agent, superintendent, or other disbursing agent of the Indian

Service may deposit Indian moneys, individual

or tribal, coming into his hands as custodian, in

such national bank or banks as he may select:

Provided, That the bank or banks so selected by

him shall first execute to said disbursing agent

a bond, with approved surety, in such an amount

as will properly safeguard the funds to be deposited. Such bond shall be subject to the approval

of the Secretary of the Interior.

(Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 153, 35 Stat. 73; June 25, 1910,

ch. 431, §1, 36 Stat. 855; Mar. 3, 1928, ch. 122, 45

Stat. 161; Apr. 30, 1934, ch. 169, 48 Stat. 648.)

CODIFICATION

This section is also set out in the last two provisos of

section 372 of this title.

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, §§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.

Transfer of disbursement functions of all Government

agencies with certain exceptions to the Fiscal Service,

Treasury Department, see note set out under section 53

of this title.

CROSS REFERENCES

Indian agents abolished, see note under section 64 of

this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 353, 406, 564h,

697, 747 of this title.

§ 152. Proceeds of sales of Indian lands

All moneys received from the sales of lands

that have been, or may be, ceded to the United

States by Indian tribes, by treaties providing for

the investment or payment to the Indians, parties thereto, of the proceeds of the lands ceded

by them, respectively, after deducting the expenses of survey and sale, any sums stipulated

to be advanced, and the expenses of fulfilling

any engagements contained therein, shall be

paid into the Treasury in the same manner that

moneys received from the sales of public lands

are paid into the Treasury.

(R.S. §2093.)

CODIFICATION

R.S. §2093 derived from act Jan. 9, 1837, ch. 1, §1, 5

Stat. 135.

CROSS REFERENCES

Proceeds of sales of Indian lands not subject to deductions for expenses of public land service, see section 154

of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 153 of this title.

§ 153. Appropriation to carry out treaties

All sums that are or may be required to be

paid, and all moneys that are or may be required

to be invested by the treaties mentioned in section 152 of this title are appropriated in conformity to them, and shall be drawn from the

Treasury as other public moneys are drawn

therefrom, under such instructions as may from

time to time be given by the President.

(R.S. §2094.)

CODIFICATION

R.S. §2094 derived from act Jan. 9, 1837, ch. 1, §2, 5

Stat. 135.

§ 154. Proceeds of sales of lands not subject to

certain deductions

No part of the expenses of the public lands

service shall be deducted from the proceeds of

Indian lands sold through the Bureau of Land

Management, except as authorized by the treaty

or agreement providing for the disposition of the

lands.

(July 4, 1884, ch. 180, §10, 23 Stat. 98; 1946 Reorg.

Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60

Stat. 1100.)

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, §§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.

‘‘Bureau of Land Management’’ substituted in text

for ‘‘General Land Office’’ pursuant to section 403 of

Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to

Title 5, which established the Bureau and transferred

thereto the functions of the General Land Office.

§ 155. Disposal of miscellaneous revenues from

Indian reservations, etc.

All miscellaneous revenues derived from Indian reservations, agencies, and schools, except

those of the Five Civilized Tribes and not the result of the labor of any member of such tribe,

which are not required by existing law to be

otherwise disposed of, shall be covered into the

Treasury of the United States under the caption

‘‘Indian moneys, proceeds of labor’’, and are

made available for expenditure, in the discretion

of the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit

of the Indian tribes, agencies, and schools on

whose behalf they are collected, subject, however, to the limitations as to tribal funds, imposed by sections 123 and 142 1 of this title.

(Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 141, §2, 22 Stat. 590; Mar. 2, 1887,

ch. 320, 24 Stat. 463; May 17, 1926, ch. 309, §1, 44

Stat. 560; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, §1(68), 45 Stat.

991.)