25 U.S.C. § 280 : US Code - Section 280: Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations

Search 25 U.S.C. § 280 : US Code - Section 280: Patents of lands to missionary boards of religious organizations

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue
a patent to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper
authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or
school work on any Indian reservation for such lands thereon as
were prior to September 21, 1922, set apart to and were on that
date being actually and beneficially used and occupied by such
organization solely for mission or school purposes, the area so
patented to not exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one
organization at any station: Provided, That such patent shall
provide that when no longer used for mission or school purposes
said lands shall revert to the Indian owners.