---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 400a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "400a"
heading: "Lease for mining purposes of land reserved for agency or school; disposition of proceeds; royalty"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/400a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands"
---

# §400a. Lease for mining purposes of land reserved for agency or school; disposition of proceeds; royalty


The [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior is authorized under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to lease at public auction upon not less than thirty days’ public notice for mining purposes land on any [Indian reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) reserved for [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) agency or school purposes, in accordance with existing law applicable to other lands in such [reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8), and the proceeds arising therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md) for whose benefit the lands are reserved subject to appropriation by Congress for educational work among the [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md) or in paying expenses of administration of agencies: Provided, That a royalty of at least one-eighth shall be reserved in all leases.


## Source credit

(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 156, 44 Stat. 300.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1,2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.