A Century Later, Regulations Finally Finalized For Buy Indian Act

In 1910, President Taft signed the Buy Indian Act into law, The Washington Times reports. The law requires the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to give preference to American Indian-owned businesses in awarding contracts and funding. But the Interior Department only just approved the rules that will enforce the legislation, The Washington Times further reports. As a result of the law, an estimated $45 million would go to American Indian-owned and -operated businesses each year.

(I wonder how many other laws never had their implementing regulations put into place.)