25 U.S.C. § 400a
Lease for mining purposes of land reserved for agency or school; disposition of proceeds; royalty
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to lease at public auction upon not less than thirty days’ public notice for mining purposes land on any Indian reservation reserved for Indian agency or school purposes, in accordance with existing law applicable to other lands in such reservation, and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians for whose benefit the lands are reserved subject to appropriation by Congress for educational work among the Indians or in paying expenses of administration of agencies: Provided, That a royalty of at least one-eighth shall be reserved in all leases.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1981–1984 · leading case: Crow Tribe of Indians v. State of Montana, & Ramon Dore, Dir., Montana Dep't of Revenue, 650 F.2d 1104 (9th Cir. 1981).
Crow Tribe of Indians v. State of Montana, & Ramon Dore, Dir., Montana Dep't of Revenue, 650 F.2d 1104 (9th Cir. 1981). “25 U.S.C. §§ 400a, 398b. Tribal control over resources was further diluted by holdings that the Secretary had no discretion in the granting of leases once land had been declared open for prospecting.”
Blackfeet Tribe of Indians v. State of Montana, Dir. of the Montana Dep't of Revenue, Glacier Cnty., Montana, & Pondera Cnty., Montana, 729 F.2d 1192 (9th Cir. 1984). “300 (codified at 25 U.S.C. § 400a (1976)); Act of March 3, 1927, ch.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.