---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 391a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "391a"
heading: "Sale for town site; removal of restriction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/391a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands"
---

# §391a. Sale for town site; removal of restriction


For the purpose of allowing any Indian allottee to sell for townsite purposes any portion of the lands allotted to him, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior may, by order, remove restrictions upon the alienation of such lands and issue fee-simple patents therefor under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.


## Source credit

(June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 373.)