Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America;
At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of citizenship to Indians.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided, That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.
F H Gillett
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Geo H Moses
Acting President pro tempore of the Senate.
Approved, June 2, 1924.
Calvin Coolidge
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