---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 122"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "122"
heading: "Limitation on application of tribal funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/122"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians"
  - "Subchapter II — Disbursement of Moneys and Supplies"
---

# §122. Limitation on application of tribal funds


No funds belonging to any [Indian tribe](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2) with which treaty relations exist shall be applied in any manner not authorized by such treaty, or by express provisions of law; nor shall money appropriated to execute a treaty be transferred or applied to any other purpose, unless expressly authorized by law.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2097.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2097 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 266, § 2, 14 Stat. 280.