120 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



pewa Indians in the State of Minnesota as a part of the permanent 

 fund of said "All of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minne- 

 sota " provided for in an Act of Congress entitled "An Act for the 

 relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minne- 

 sota," approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 nine, and the Acts supplementaiy thereto, and the amounts so certi- 

 fied 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. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 193, s. 2, 35 Stat. 270. 

 See note under section 1 of this act. 



Selections of allotments outside of the national forest by Indians in lieu of 

 allotments within the national forest. 



Sec. 3. That any Indian having an allotment within the limits of 

 the National Forest created by this Act is hereby authorized to re- 

 linquish such allotment and permitted to take another allotment in 

 lieu 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 here- 

 after be disposed of under section seven of the Act of June 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 Secre- 

 tary 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 cov- 

 ered by such allotments ; 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 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 

 provided 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. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 193, s. 3, 35 Stat. 271. 

 See note under section 1 of this act. 



Ag^ricultural land not included within the national forest open to homestead 

 settlement. 



Sec. 4. That all land in any of said reservations, the Winnibigosh- 

 ish 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 cla.ssified 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 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 disposed of except on payment of one dollar and twenty-five 

 cents per acre. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 193, s. 4, 35 Stat. .272. 



