---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 272a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "272a"
heading: "Other duties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/272a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Education of Indians"
---

# §272a. Other duties


The Superintendent of Indian schools shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, subject to the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1479, § 1, 33 Stat. 1049.)

## 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.