25 CFR § 17.13 - Government employees as beneficiaries.

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title: "25 CFR § 17.13 - Government employees as beneficiaries."
title_number: 25
title_name: "Indians"
section_number: "17.13"
section_name: "Government employees as beneficiaries."
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "PROBATE"
part_number: "17"
part_name: "ACTION ON WILLS OF OSAGE INDIANS"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 301."
regulatory_source: "22 FR 10530, Dec. 24, 1957, unless otherwise noted."
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# 17.13 Government employees as beneficiaries.

In considering the will of a deceased Osage Indian the superintendent may disapprove any will which names as a beneficiary thereunder a government employee who is not related to the testator by blood, or otherwise the natural object of the testator's bounty.