122 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



ACT JUNE 25, 1910, c. 431. (36 Stat. 855.) 



Sales by the Secretary of the Interior of timber on Chippewa Indian pine- 

 timber lands; Secretary of the Interior authorized to open to homestead 

 entry pine lands bearing unsold timber; lands included in the national 

 forest excepted. 



Sec. 27. Tliat where the Secretary of the Interior has offered for 

 sale the pine timber on lands classijfied as " pine lands " in the ceded 

 Chippewa Indian reservations in the State or Minnesota, either under 

 the provisions of section five of the Act of Congress approved Janu- 

 an* fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act 

 for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State 

 of Minnesota " (Twenty-fifth Statutes at Large, page six hundred 

 and forty-two), or under the provisions of the Act of Congress 

 amendatoiT thereof approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred 

 and two. entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act for the 

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

 nesota,' approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 nine " (Thirty-.second Statutes at Large, page four hundred), or shall 

 hereafter offer for sale the timber on any such " pine lands " under 

 the Act last described, and the same remains unsold, he shall be 

 authorized to sell the timber unsold at any such offering, after insert- 

 ing notice of the proposed offering once each week for four consecu- 

 tive weeks in not less than six newspapers or trade journals of general 

 circulation, the first publication of said notice to be at least three 

 calendar months jirior to the sale : Prodded^ That this provision shall 

 supersede any other provision of law with reference to the adver- 

 tising of Chippewa Indian pine-tiinber lands for sale: Prodded also, 

 That printed copies of the rules and regulations and a schedule of the 

 lands and timber shall be furnished applicants therefor at least thirty 

 days ])rior to the sale: And provided further. That except as herein 

 modified the sale shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions 

 of the said Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two. 

 That should there be unsold pine timber on lands classified as "• pine 

 lands "' after a reoffering under this Act. the Secretary of the Interior 

 is hereby authorized, if he deems it advisable, to open the lands on 

 which such timber is located to homestead settlement, in fuecordance 

 with the provisions of section six of said Act of January fourteenth, 

 eighteen lumdred and eighty-nine, with the condition that the settler 

 shall, at the time of making his original homestead entry, ])ay for the 

 timber at a rate per thousand feet to be fixed by the Sec/etary of the 

 Inierior. which shall not he less than the minimum price provided 

 by existing law. such payment to be in addition to the ]^rice re(|uired 

 by law to be paid for the land, the amount of timber to Idc detemiined 

 in accordance with existing government estimates, or to be reesti- 

 mated, if deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior, in such 

 manner as he may prescribe and by such agents as he may designate 

 under the authority of the said Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen 

 hundred and two: Provided, horrever. That nothing herein shall be 

 held to authorize the o])ening to settlement or entry of any land 

 included in the National Forest created by the Act approved May 

 twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An Act amend- 

 ing the Act of Jamiary fourteentli, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, 

 and Acts amendatory thereof, and for other ]>urposes." 



Act Jnnp 25. 1910. c. 431. s. 27. .S« Stat. 862. 



I'n. visions of act .Iimc 27. 1SK»2, i-. IIT)?. niul act May 23, 190:*, c. 193, 



UU'iil ioiiod in tliis .'^octioii. :\Y0 sot fortli above. 



