---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 157"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "157"
heading: "Investments of stock required by treaties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/157"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians"
  - "Subchapter III — Deposit, Care, and Investment of Indian Moneys"
---

# §157. Investments of stock required by treaties


All investments of stock, that are or may be required by treaties with the Indians, shall be made under the direction of the President; and special accounts of the funds under such treaties shall be kept at the Treasury, and statements thereof be annually laid before Congress.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2095.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2095 derived from act Jan. 9, 1837, ch. 1, § 3, 5 Stat. 135.