---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 274"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "274"
heading: "Employment of Indian girls and boys as assist­ants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/274"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Education of Indians"
---

# §274. Employment of Indian girls and boys as assist­ants


The Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall employ Indian girls as assistant matrons and Indian boys as farmers and industrial teachers in all Indian schools when it is practicable to do so.


## Source credit

(June 7, 1897, ch. 3, § 1, 30 Stat. 83.)

## 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.