---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 63"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "63"
heading: "Consolidation of agencies"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/63"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Officers of Indian Affairs"
---

# §63. Consolidation of agencies


The President may, in his discretion, consolidate two or more agencies into one, and where [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md) are located on [reservations](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) created by Executive order he may, with the consent of the [tribes](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) to be affected thereby, expressed in the usual manner, consolidate one or more [tribes](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A), and abolish such agencies as are thereby rendered unnecessary.


## Source credit

(May 17, 1882, ch. 163, § 6, 22 Stat. 88; July 4, 1884, ch. 180, § 6, 23 Stat. 97.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation to Secretary of the Interior of authority vested in President by this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 10250, June 5, 1951, 16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.