---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 344a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "344a"
heading: "Repealed. Act Nov. 24, 1942, ch. 640, § 4, 56 Stat. 1022"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/344a"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Allotment of Indian Lands"
---

# [§344a. Repealed. Act Nov. 24, 1942, ch. 640, § 4, 56 Stat. 1022 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act June 25, 1910, ch. 431, § 12, 36 Stat. 858, authorized Secretary of the Interior to investigate the allotment in the name of a deceased Indian and to recommend to Congress the cancellation of such Indian’s patent if he died without heirs.