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Receipts from prior sales of timber from the lands set aside as a national forest 

 credited to Chippewa Indians; subsequent receipts subject to general laws 

 and regulations governing natioual forests. 



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 tim- 

 ber 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 Minnesota, as pro- 

 vided for in an Act of Congress 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 Acts supplementary thereto, and shall draw interest at the 

 rate of five per centum jier annum, pursuant to the terms of said Acta; 

 and after said appraisal the National Forest hereby created, as above 

 described, shall be subj'ect to all general laws and regulations from 

 time to time governing national forests, so far as said laws and regu- 

 lations may be applicable thereto. 



Act May 23, 190S, c. 193, s. 5, 35 Stat. 272. 

 Compensation of commission for appraisal of timber reserve. 



Sec. 6. That the commissioners provided for herein shall receive a 

 compensation of ten dollars per da}'^ each for each and every day 

 actuallj'^ 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. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 193, s. 6. 35 Stat. 272. 

 Indian burial places within the national forest. 



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. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 193, s. 7, 35 Stat. 272. 

 United States not bound to purchase land excluded from the national forest. 



Sec. 8. That nothing in this Act contained shall m any manner 

 bind the United States to purchase any of the land in said reserva- 

 tions excluded from the reserve created by this Act, or to dispose of 

 said land, except as provided by the Act of January fourteenth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act for the relief 

 and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," 

 and an Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, en- 

 titled "An Act to amend an Act for the relief and civilization of 

 the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," or the provisions 

 of this Act ; or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands or any 



gortion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United 

 tates shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of the said 

 lands and the timber thereon, and to dispose of the proceeds thereof, 

 as provided in said Acts, only when received from the sale of the 

 timber and the lands, as therein provided. 



Act May 23, 190S, c. 195. s. 8. 35 Stat. 272. 

 See uote under section 1 of this act. 



