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CFR /  Title 25  /  Part 152  /  Sec. 152.6 Issuance of patents in fee to non-Indians and Indians

Whenever the Secretary determines that trust land, or any interest therein, has been acquired through inheritance or devise by a non-Indian, or by a person of Indian descent to whom the United States owes no trust responsibility, the Secretary may issue a patent in fee for the land or interest therein to such person without application.