Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

25 U.S.C. § 292a

Discontinuance of boarding and day schools having small attendance

ProvidedProvided furtherAll reservation and nonreservation boarding schools with an average attendance in any year of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: , That all day schools with an average attendance in any year of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year: , That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this section or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States.

Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 70545 Stat. 1576(, .)

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from the Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1930. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Mar. 7, 1928, ch. 13745 Stat. 215, .

Jan. 12, 1927, ch. 2744 Stat. 947, .

May 10, 1926, ch. 27744 Stat. 468, .

Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 46243 Stat. 1155, .

June 5, 1924, ch. 26443 Stat. 404, .

Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 4242 Stat. 1182, .

May 24, 1922, ch. 19942 Stat. 562, .

Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 11941 Stat. 1227, .

Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 7541 Stat. 410, .