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[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
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  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC293b]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 7--EDUCATION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 293b. Conveyance of abandoned school properties in Alaska 
        to local town or city officials or school authorities; 
        reservation of rights and claims by United States and use 
        conditions; violations and forfeiture of grant; determinations; 
        reversion to United States
        
    The Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to 
convey to local town or city officials or to school authorities in the 
Territory of Alaska, all the right, title, and interest of the United 
States in and to any parcel or tract of land and the improvements 
thereon for school or other public purposes whenever he shall determine 
that such land and improvements are no longer required by the Alaska 
Native Service for school purposes: Provided, That any conveyance made 
pursuant to this section shall be subject to all valid existing rights 
and claims, shall reserve to the United States all mineral deposits in 
the lands and the right to prospect for and remove the deposits under 
such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 
prescribe, and shall provide that the lands and improvements conveyed 
shall be used for school or other public purposes only and that the 
school facilities maintained thereon or therein shall be available to 
all of the native children of the town, city, or other school district 
concerned on the same terms as to other children of such town, city, or 
district. The Secretary of the Interior, if at any time he determines 
that the grantee of any such lands and improvements has violated or 
failed to observe the foregoing provisions and that such violation or 
failure has continued for a period of at least one year, may declare a 
forfeiture of the grant. Such determination by the Secretary shall be 
final, and thereupon the lands and improvements covered thereby shall 
revert to the United States and become a part of the public domain 
subject to administration and disposal under the public land laws.

(Aug. 23, 1950, ch. 778, 64 Stat. 470.)

                       References in Text

    The public land laws, referred to in text, are classified generally 
to Title 43, Public Lands.


                      Admission of Alaska as State

    Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on 
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as 
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.