25 USC § 97 - Proposals or bids for contracts to be preserved

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identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s97"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "25 USC § 97 - Proposals or bids for contracts to be preserved"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "97"
section_name: "Proposals or bids for contracts to be preserved"
chapter_number: 4
chapter_name: "PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-07-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 289, § 3, 19 Stat. 199; June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 328; Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 112(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3833.)"
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# 1 Proposals or bids for contracts to be preserved

So in original.

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In all lettings of contracts in connection with the Indian Service, the proposals or bids received shall be filed and preserved..

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 15, 1876, ch. 289, § 3, 19 Stat. 199; June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 328; Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 112(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3833.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996— substituted a period for “; and an abstract of all bids or proposals received for the supplies or services embraced in any contract shall be attached to, and filed with, the said contract when the same is filed in the office of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Effective , Procurement Division of Department of the Treasury changed to Bureau of Federal Supply by regulation issued by Secretary of the Treasury under authority of . Functions of Bureau of Federal Supply transferred to Administrator of General Services by section 102 of , , which was repealed and reenacted as , Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by , §§ 1, 6(b), , , 1304.  was amended generally by , , , and, as so amended, no longer relates to the Bureau of Federal Supply. See Historical and Revision Notes and 2006 Amendment note under .

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Function of determination of policies and methods of procurement, warehousing, and distribution of property, facilities, structures, improvements, machinery, equipment, stores, and supplies exercised by any agency transferred to a Procurement Division in Department of the Treasury by Ex. Ord. No. 6166, , set out as a note under , Government Organization and Employees.