An Act to Terminate Certain Federal Restrictions upon Indians

An Act To terminate certain Federal restrictions upon Indians.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 467 and 2136 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C., sec. 266) and section 2135 of the Revised Statutes (25 U.S.C., sec. 265), all of the said laws being laws which forbid the sale, purchase, or possession by Indians of personal property which may be sold, purchased, or possessed by non-Indians, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. (a) Section 1157 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended, is further amended by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following: ":Provided, That this section shall apply only to livestock purchased by or for Indians with funds provided from the revolving loan fund established pursuant to the Acts of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended and supplemented, or from tribal loan funds used under regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, and to livestock issued to Indians as loans repayable 'in kind', and to the increase of all such livestock, and only until such time as such loans are repaid: Provided further, That it shall be the duty of any purchaser of Indian livestock to use reasonable diligence to ascertain that such livestock are not subject to such loans."

(b) Section 1 of the Act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stat. 94, 25 U.S.C., sec. 195), is repealed.

Approved August 15, 1953.