FOREST SERVICE. 119 



Secretary of the Interior authorized to sell pine timber outside of lands set 

 aside as forest reserve, and reservation of a portion thereof selected by the 

 Forester of the Department of Agriculture; the Forester of the Department 

 of Agriculture authorized to sell and dispose of standing timber within 

 the forest reserve; commission for appraisal of portion of timber previously 

 reserved from sale; funds deposited to credit of Chippewa Indians. 



Sec. 2. The Seci-etary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pro- 

 ceed with the sale of tlie merchantable pine timber upon the above- 

 described land outside of said ten sections and said islands and points, 

 in conformity with the provisions of said Act above entitled, and 

 reserving ten per centum of such timber from sale, said ten percentum 

 to be desiijnated by the Forester of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture; and as to the timber upon said ten sections and said 

 islands and points, the said Forester is authorized, under such rules 

 and regulations us he may prescribe from time to time to sell and dis- 

 po.-;e of so much, of the standing timber thereon as he may deem wise 

 and advisable in the conduct of a National Forest: Provided^ That a 

 connnission of three persons shall at once be appointed, consisting of 

 one person to be designated by the President, one by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, and one by a general council of the Indians of the 

 "Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewas of the JNIi&sissippi Reser- 

 vation, and Leech Lake Reservation to be held under the direction 

 of the agent at Leech Lake Indian Agency; and said commissioners 

 shall proceed forthvrith to appraise the value of the 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 hundred and 

 eighty-nine, and the ten per centum hereafter reserved under the pro- 

 visions of this Act, and the timl^er upon said ten sections and upon 

 the unappropriated lands on said ishinds and points, and shall ascer- 

 tain 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 enti- 

 tled 'An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians 

 in the State of Minnesota,' " approved January 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 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 other- 

 wise appropriated which they find covered by the provisions of this 

 Act. and shall certify the same to the Secretaiy of the Interior. The 

 Indians designated in this section, acting through a representative 

 who shall serve without compensation, to be named by them at the 

 time of their appointment of the commissioner herein, shall have 

 sixtv days in which to appeal to the President of the United States 

 from the findings of said commissioners, 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 bv the President, the Secretary of the Interior shall certify 

 the amount found bv said commissioners, or if modified by the Presi- 

 dent the amount detennined by him, to the Secretary of the Treasury, 

 who shall thereupon place such amount to the credit of all the Chip- 



