25 U.S.C. § 293 : US Code - Section 293: Sale of lands purchased for day school or other Indian administrative uses

Search 25 U.S.C. § 293 : US Code - Section 293: Sale of lands purchased for day school or other Indian administrative uses

Subject to applicable regulations under the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended,(!1) the Secretary
of the Interior is authorized to cause to be sold, to the highest
bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe any
tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for
day school or other Indian administrative uses, not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part
thereof is no longer needed for the original purpose; the proceeds
therefrom in all cases to be paid into the Treasury of the United
States; title to be evidenced by a patent in fee simple for such
lands as can be described in terms of the legal survey, or by deed
duly executed by the Secretary of the Interior containing such
metes-and-bounds description as will identify the land so conveyed
as the land which had been purchased: Provided, That where the
purchase price was paid from tribal funds, the net proceeds shall
be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the
respective tribes of Indians.