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Indians in the State of Minnesota," approver! January four- 

 teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the acts supple- 

 mentary thereto, and the amounts so certified to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury shall draw interest at the rate of five per 

 centum per annum, pursuant to the terms of said acts. 



SEC. 3. That any Indian having an allotment within the limits 

 of the National Forest created by this act is 

 men"* Rel?nqu?shl hereby authorized to relinquish such allot- 

 ment, ment and permitted to take another allot- 

 ment in lien thereof outside such National 

 Forest, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; 

 and the allotments of any deceased Indians located within the 

 boundaries of said National Forest shall not hereafter be dis- 

 posed of under sec. 7, act June 27, 1 !)()_>, . M >2 Stat.. 24~>; but the 

 heirs of said deceased Indians shall have the ri^ht, with the con- 

 sent of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules as he 

 may prescribe, to relinquish to the United States the lands covered 

 by such allotments and to select surveyed, unappropriated, 

 unreserved land within the limits of any of the ceded Indian 

 lands in the State of Minnesota and outside of the National 

 Forest hereby created in lieu of the land covered by such allot- 

 ments; and the lands so relinquished by the Indians or their 

 heirs shall thereupon become part of the said National Forest. 

 And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized on re- 

 quest of the Forester of the Department of 

 and purchase. Agriculture to purchase such relinquishments 

 from said Indians or their heirs and to pay 

 for the same from any moneys received, after the appraisal of 

 timber herein provided for, on account of the sale of timber 

 from the National Forest hereby created, or from [5] the sale 

 of any other products or the use of any lands or resources 

 thereof. 



SEC. 4. That all land in any of said reservations, the Win- 

 nibi.^oshish Indian Reservation. Tass Lake Indian Reservation, 

 rhippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, or Leech Lake In- 

 dian Reservation not included in the National Forest hereby 

 created as above described, heretofore classi- 

 of unreserved ilnd7 fied or o>sisnated as agricultural lands, is 

 hereby declared to be open to homestead set- 

 tlement; and any of said laud which has been classified as 

 timber land shall be open to homestead settlement as soon and 

 as fast as the timber is removed therefrom, in conformity with 

 the homestead law, except that none of said lands shall be dis- 

 posed of except on payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents 

 per acre. 



