---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 150"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "150"
heading: "Withdrawals of land for Indian reservations prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/150"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry"
---

# §150. Withdrawals of land for Indian reservations prohibited


No [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) of the United States shall be withdrawn by Executive Order, proclamation, or otherwise, for or as an Indian reservation except by act of Congress.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1919, ch. 4, § 27, 41 Stat. 34.)