[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2561.0-3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart 2561_Native Allotments
 
Sec. 2561.0-3  Authority.

    The Act of May 17, 1906 (34 Stat. 197), as amended August 2, 1956 
(70 Stat. 954; 43 U.S.C. 270-1 to 270-3), authorizes the Secretary of 
the Interior to allot not to exceed 160 acres of vacant, unappropriated, 
and unreserved nonmineral land in Alaska or, subject to the provisions 
of the Act of March 8, 1922 (42 Stat. 415; 48 U.S.C. 376-377), of 
vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public land in Alaska that may be 
valuable for coal, oil, or gas deposits, or, under certain conditions, 
of national forest lands in Alaska, to any Indian, Aleut or Eskimo of 
full or mixed blood who resides in and is a native of Alaska, and who is 
the head of a family, or is twenty-one years of age.