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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 31 STAT. · March 2, 1901 · Chapter 808

Chapter 808. Authorizing the Attorney-General, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, to appear in suits brought by States relative to school lands

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CHAP. 808.— An Act Authorizing the Attorney-General, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, to appear in suits brought by States relative to school lands. March 2, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in, Congress assembled*, Public lands.Secretary of the Interior may be substituted as party for Indian tribes in suits brought by States in the Supreme Court for school lands on Indian reservations. That in any suit heretofore or hereafter instituted in the Supreme Court of the United States to deter-mine the right of a State to what are commonly known its 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.
Approved, March 2, 1901.
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