each tract, subdivision, or lot covered by his purchase, except on the 

 forestry lands as hereinbefore provided, within such time as the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior may direct, and under such rules and regula- 

 tions as he may prescribe, and to cut no timber other than pine, except 

 such as may be absolutely necessary in the economical conduct of the 

 logging operations, and to burn or remove a sufficient amount of the 

 tops and refuse to prevent danger from fire to the timber left stand- 

 ing, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, and, when practicable, to employ Indian labor in the cut- 

 ting, handling, and manufacture of said timber. And each and every 

 purchaser shall be required to give a bond in a sufficient penalty, to 

 be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, for the faithful perform- 

 ance of said agreement and for the observance of the regulations of 

 the Secretary of the Interior concerning the sale, cutting, and removal 

 of such timber: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, 

 upon application, furnish to any persons who may expect to bid, not 

 more than ninety days prior to the date of the sale of any pine timber 

 hereinbefore mentioned, a statement of the rules and regulations 

 under which said pine timber shall be cut and the tops and refuse 

 thereof burnt or removed, and of the time within which said timber 

 must be removed. 



" Before being removed from the tract from which they are cut, all 

 logs cut hereunder shall be stamped and bark-marked by the logger 

 and numbered and scaled by competent and experienced sealers, to be 

 appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and paid such reasonable 

 salaries as may be fixed by him. Said sealers shall keep in suitable 

 books for reference a record of the marks, also a complete list of the 

 numbers of all logs, w r ith the scale of each log set opposite its number-, 

 said scale books to be open to the inspection of the check sealer or to 

 any authorized Government representative at all times; and said logs 

 shall be landed separately from all other logs, and the title to said logs 

 shall remain in the United States for the benefit of the Indians ; and 

 said logs shall not be removed from the place of landing until the pur- 

 chase price agreed upon shall be fully paid to such officer of the 

 Indian Department as shall be designated by the Secretary of the 

 Interior to account for and receive the same. And the Secretary of 

 the Interior may, at the request of the chiefs of said bands or tribes 

 of Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota interested in the said 

 timber sales, appoint check sealers to verify and inspect the work of 

 the Government sealers; the said check sealers to be designated by 

 said chiefs and paid out of the funds of the Indians such reasonable 

 compensation as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. 



"After the merchantable pine timber on any tract, subdivision, or 

 lot shall have been removed, such tract, subdivision, or lot shall, ex- 

 cept 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 : Pro- 

 vided, That on the forestry lands aforesaid, as soon as the merchant- 

 able pine timber 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, forth- 

 with 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, 



