25 U.S.C. § 280a : US Code - Section 280A: Land in Alaska for schools or missions; general land laws

Search 25 U.S.C. § 280a : US Code - Section 280A: Land in Alaska for schools or missions; general land laws

The Indians or persons conducting schools or missions in the
Territory of Alaska shall not be disturbed in the possession of any
lands actually in their use or occupation on June 6, 1900, and the
land, at any station not exceeding six hundred and forty acres,
occupied on said date as missionary stations among the Indian
tribes in the section, with the improvements thereon erected by or
for such societies, shall be continued in the occupancy of the
several religious societies to which the missionary stations
respectively belong, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed
to have such lands surveyed in compact form as nearly as
practicable and patents issued for the same to the several
societies to which they belong; but nothing contained in this Act
shall be construed to put in force in the Territory the general
land laws of the United States.