---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 180"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "180"
heading: "Settling on or surveying lands belonging to Indians by treaty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/180"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Protection of Indians"
---

# §180. Settling on or surveying lands belonging to Indians by treaty


Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any [Indian tribe](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2), or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of $1,000. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as he may judge necessary to remove any such person from the lands.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2118.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2118 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 11, 4 Stat. 730.