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the Indians of the Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewas of 

 the Mississippi Reservation, and Leech Lake Reservation, to 

 be held under the direction of the agent at Leech Lake* Indian 

 Agency ; and said commissioners shall pro- 

 Appraisal of seed ceed forthwith to appraise the value of the 

 other timber. C * five per centum of timber heretofore reserved 

 from sale by the provisions of said act 

 entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act for the 

 relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State 

 of Minnesota,' " approved January fourteenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-nine, and the ten per centum hereafter 

 reserved under the provisions of this act, and the timber 

 upon said ten sections and upon [4] the unappropriated lands 

 on said islands and points, and shall ascertain the acreage 

 of actual land included under the provisions of this act 

 and to the estimated value of said five per centum of 

 timber reserved under the said act entitled "An act to amend 

 an act entitled 'An act for the relief and civilization of the 

 Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,' " approved Janu- 

 ary fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten 

 per centum reserved under this act and the estimated value 

 of timber upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated 

 lands on said islands and points, to the sum of 

 Valuation of land, the values of the timber so estimated shall add 

 an amount equal to one dollar and twenty- 

 five cents for each and every acre of land not otherwise appro- 

 priated which they find covered by the provisios of this act, and 

 shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior. The 

 Indians designated in this section, acting through a represent- 

 ative who shall serve without compensation, to be named by 

 them at the time of their appointment of the commissioner 

 herein, shall have sixty days in which to appeal to the Presi- 

 dent of the United States from the findings of said commis- 

 sioners,, as certified to the Secretary of the Interior. At the 

 end of said sixty days, if no appeal has been taken or if an 

 appeal has been taken, then, upon the determination thereof 

 by the President, the Secretary of the Interior shall certify 

 the amount found by said commissioners, or if modified by the 

 President the amount determined by him, to the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, who shall thereupon place such 

 an * ayi l ' amount to the credit of all the Chippewa In- 



dians in the State of Minnesota as a part of 

 the permanent fund of said "All of the Chippewa Indians in 

 the State of Minnesota " provided for in an act of Congress 

 entitled "An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa 



