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[CITE: 25USC500]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER VII--REINDEER INDUSTRY
 
Sec. 500. Purpose

    A necessity for providing means of subsistence for the Eskimos and 
other natives of Alaska is hereby declared to exist. It is also declared 
to be the policy of Congress, and the purpose of this subchapter, to 
establish and maintain for the said natives of Alaska a self-sustaining 
economy by acquiring and organizing for and on behalf of said natives a 
reindeer industry or business, by encouraging and developing native 
activity and responsibility in all branches of the said industry or 
business, and by preserving the native character of the said industry or 
business thus established.

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, Sec. 1, 50 Stat. 900.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 250 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.


                               Short Title

    Act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, 500 Stat. 900, as amended, which enacted 
this subchapter, is popularly known as the ``Reindeer Industry Act of 
1937''.


                                 Repeals

    Section 17 of act Sept. 1, 1937, provided: ``All Acts of Congress or 
parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are 
hereby repealed.''


                     Authorization of Appropriations

    Section 16 of act Sept. 1, 1937, authorized the appropriation of 
$2,000,000 for the use of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out 
this subchapter.