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twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (volume thirty-second Statutes at 

 Large, page two hundred and forty-five); but the heirs of said deceased Indians 

 shall have the right, with the consent 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 

 allotments; and the lands so relinquished by the Indians or their heirs shall there- 

 upon become part of the said National Forest. And the Secretary of the Interior 

 is hereby authorized on request of the Forester of the Department of 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 pro- 

 vided for, on account of the sale of timber from the National Forest hereby 

 created, or from 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 Winnibigoshish Indian 

 Reservation, Cass Lake Indian Reservation, Chippewas of the Mississippi 

 Reservation, or Leech Lake Indian Reservation, not included in the National 

 Forest hereby created as above described, heretofore classified or designated as 

 agricultural lands, is hereby declared to be open to homestead settlement; and 

 any of said land which has been classified as timber land shall be open to home- 

 stead settlement as soon and as fast as the timber is removed therefrom, in con- 

 formity with the homestead law, except that none of said lands shall be disposed 

 of except on payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. 



SEC. 5. That all moneys received from the sale of timber from any of the 

 lands set aside by this Act for a National Forest, prior to the appraisal herein 

 provided for, including all moneys received for timber under sales made by the 

 Secretary of the Interior as authorized by existing laws and section two of this 

 Act, shall be placed to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minne- 

 sota, as provided for in an Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the relief and 

 civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," approved Jan- 

 uary fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and the Acts supplementary 

 thereto, and shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, pursuant 

 to the terms of said Acts; and after said appraisal the National Forest hereby 

 created, as above described, shall be subject to all general laws and regulations 

 from time to time governing national forests, so far as said laws and regulations 

 may be applicable thereto. 



SEC. 6. That the commissioners provided for herein shall receive a com- 

 pensation of ten dollars per day each for each and every day actually spent upon 

 the work herein provided for, which shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury 

 of the United States not otherwise appropriated, and no commissioner shall be 

 paid for more than ten days' service. 



SEC. 7. None of the Indian graves now upon any of the islands or points 

 referred to in this Act shall be disturbed, and the Indians shall continue to have 

 the right to bury their dead at such places as they have heretofore used for that 

 purpose, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Forest Service. 



SEC. 8. That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind the 

 United States to purchase any of the land in said reservations excluded from the 



