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tioiis ill area on said restu'vations last aforesaid, lo be selected by the 

 Forester of the Department of Agriculture, with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, in lots not less than three hundred and 

 twenty acres each in contiguous areas, and nothing herein contained 

 shall interfere with the allotments to the Indians heretofore and here- 

 after nuide. The islands in Cass and Leech lakes and the land re- 

 served at Sugar Point and Pine Point Peninsula sliall remain as 

 Indian land under the control of the Department of the Interior. 



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Lands reserved as forest reserve after removal of merchantable pine timber; 

 removal of timber under supervision and direction of the Forester of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



After the merchantitble pine timber on any- tract, subdivision, or lot 

 shall have been removed, such tract, subdivision, or lot shall, except 

 on the forestry lands aforesaid, for the purposes of this Act, be classed 

 and treated as agricultural lands, and shall be opened to homestead 

 entry in accordance with the provisions of this Act : Provided, That 

 on the forestry lands aforesaid, as soon as the merchantable pine tim- 

 ber now thereon shall have been removed from any tract, subdivision, 

 or lot, as herein provided, such tract, subdivision, or lot shall, without 

 further Act, resolution, or proclamation, forthwith become and be 

 part of a forest reserve, the same as though set apart by proclamation 

 of the President in accordance with the Act of Congress approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and subsequent laws 

 amending and supplementing the same, and shall be managed and 

 protected in accordance with their provisions and the rules and regu- 

 lations made and to be made in furtherance thereof: And provided 

 further, That on said forestry lands aforesaid said pine timber shall 

 be cut clean, except as to the five per centum as hereinbefore provided, 

 and removed nnder the supervision and direction of the Forester of 

 the Department of Agriculture, in accordance with rules and regula- 

 tions to be prescribed by him and approved by the Secretaiy of the 

 Interior, and the said Forester shall have power at all times to patrol 

 and protect said lands and forests, and to enforce all rules and regula- 

 tions made by him as aforesaid. 



The provisions of act March 3, 1891, c. 5G1, s. 24, mentiouecl above, are 

 set forth on p. 87, ante. 



Certain agricultural lands open to homestead settlement; agricultural lands 

 within or contiguous to forestry lands and designated by the Forester of 

 the Department of Agriculture, excepted. 



As soon as practicable after the passage of this Act the Secretary 

 of the Interior shall open to homestead settlement, as herein provided, 

 the lands on all tlie reservations, or portions of reservations, which 

 have been ceded to the United States by the Chippewa Indians in 

 INIinnesota, including the four reservations last aforesaid, which have 

 been examined and found to be agricultural lands, and shall iTnme- 

 diately proceed to have examined, as herein provided, the remaining 

 lands,' and shall without delay open to homestead settlement those 

 found to be agricultural lands: Provided, That on the four reserva- 

 tions last aforesaid, where agricultural lands are included within 

 or contiguous to forestry lands and are, in the o Mnion of the Forester 

 of the Agricultural Department, necessary to the economical admin- 

 istration and protection of the same, said Forester shall, as soon as 



