---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 337"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "337"
heading: "Allotments in national forests"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/337"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands"
---

# §337. Allotments in national forests


The [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to make allotments within the national forests in conformity with the general allotment laws, to any [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) occupying, living on, or having improvements on land included within any such national forest who is not entitled to an allotment on any existing [Indian reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8), or for whose [tribe](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) no [reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) has been provided, or whose [reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) was not sufficient to afford an allotment to each member thereof. All applications for allotments under the provisions of this section shall be submitted to the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of Agriculture who shall determine whether the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes than for the timber found thereon; and if it be found that the lands applied for are more valuable for agricultural or grazing purposes, then the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior shall cause allotment to be made as herein provided.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 31, 36 Stat. 863.)