Summary of Act of February 14, 1923 (42 Stat. 1246)

Extends the provisions of the General Allotment Act, as amended, to lands purchased or that will be purchased by Congress for the use and benefit of any individual or Indian tribe.

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Summary of Act of May 29, 1924 (43 Stat. 244)

Concerns oil and gas leases on lands subject to leases pursuant to the Act of February 28, 1891.

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Summary of Indian Citizenship Act, Act of June 2, 1924 (41 Stat. 408)

Made all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States citizens of the United States.

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Summary of Act of February 26, 1927 (44 Stat. 1247)

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to cancel any patent in fee simple issued to an Indian allottee or to his heirs before the end of the trust period described in his original trust patent or any extension of trust period by the president. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to do this in situations of “forced fee patent” where the allottee or his/her heirs was given a fee simple patent without their consent or application. This act is applicable if the patentee has not mortgaged or sold any part of the land described in such a patent. This act states that upon cancellation of the patent, fee simple land reverts to the status it would have if the fee patent had never been issued.

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Summary of Act of March 3, 1928 (45 Stat. 161)

Amends slightly Section 1 of the Act of June 25, 1910, relating to the powers of the Secretary of the Interior to determine the heirs of deceased Indians and the disposition or sale of allotments.

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Summary of Act of February 21, 1931 (46 Stat. 1205)

Amends Act of February 26, 1927.

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Summary of Act of March 2, 1931 (46 Stat. 1471) and Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 474)

Whenever any nontaxable, restricted land of an Indian from the Five Civilized Tribes or of any other Indian tribe is sold to any state, county, or municipality for public-improvement purposes, or is acquired, under existing law, by any state, county, or municipality by condemnation or other proceedings for such public purposes, or is sold under existing law to any other person or corporation for other purposes, the money received for said land may, in the discretion and with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be reinvested in other lands selected by said Indian, and such land so selected and purchased shall be restricted as to alienation, lease, or encumbrance, and nontaxable in the same quantity and upon the same terms and conditions as the nontaxable lands from which the reinvested funds were derived, and such restrictions shall appear in the conveyance.

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