---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1341"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1341"
heading: "Authorization of Secretary"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1341"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Constitutional Rights of Indians"
  - "Subchapter V — Materials and Publications"
---

# §1341. Authorization of Secretary

- (a) **Revision of document on “Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties” and treatise on “Federal Indian Laws”; compilation of official opinions; printing and republication—** In order that the constitutional rights of [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md) might be fully protected, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior is authorized and directed to—
  - (1) have the document entitled “[Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) Affairs, Laws and Treaties” (Senate Document Numbered 319, volumes 1 and 2, Fifty-eighth Congress), revised and extended to include all treaties, laws, Executive orders, and regulations relating to [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) affairs in force on September 1, 1967, and to have such revised document printed at the Government Publishing Office;
  - (2) have revised and republished the treatise entitled “Federal [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) Law”; and
  - (3) have prepared, to the extent determined by the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior to be feasible, an accurate compilation of the official opinions, published and unpublished, of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior relating to [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) affairs rendered by the Solicitor prior to September 1, 1967, and to have such compilation printed as a Government publication at the Government Publishing Office.
- (b) **Current services—** With respect to the document entitled “[Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) Affairs, Laws and Treaties” as revised and extended in accordance with [paragraph (1)](#a-1) of subsection (a), and the compilation prepared in accordance with [paragraph (3)](#a-3) of such subsection, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior shall take such action as may be necessary to keep such document and compilation current on an annual basis.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated for carrying out the provisions of this subchapter such sum as may be necessary.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–284, title VII, § 701, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 80; Pub. L. 93–265, Apr. 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 84; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–265 struck out “, with respect to the preparation but not including printing,” before “such sum”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Government Publishing Office” substituted for “Government Printing Office” in subsec. (a)(1), (3) on authority of section 1301(b) of Pub. L. 113–235, set out as a note preceding section 301 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents.