Text of the Act. 



[PUBLIC No. 175.] 



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. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States^ of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 2. That sec- 

 tion five of said act be amended so as to read as follows : 



" SEC. 5. That whenever, and as often as the survey, examination, 

 and lists of one hundred thousand acres of said pine lands or of a less 

 quantity, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, have been 

 made and approved, the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and he 

 hereby is, authorized and directed to sell, under such rules and regu- 

 lations as he may prescribe, and at such times and places as he may 

 designate, to be scaled under Scribner's rules in the log after -being 

 cut, all the merchantable pine timber, whether the same be green or 

 dead, standing or fallen, now on such pine lands, with the exception 

 of five per centum of said timber on certain reservations as hereinafter 

 provided, to be paid for when the timber is cut, banked, and scaled in 

 the manner herein provided for : Provided, That said pine timber shall 

 be advertised for sale in Government sections or parts of sections, and 

 shall be sold only by separate sealed bids for the pine timber on each 

 section, and the Secretary of the Interior shall reserve the right 

 to reject any or all of said bids: Provided, That the Secretary of 

 the Interior may also receive bids in groups of not exceeding ten 

 sections in any one bid, which bids may be in addition to the separate 

 bids by sections on the same lands. The parties bidding shall accom- 

 pany each of said sealed bids with cash or certified check for twenty 

 per centum of the amount of the bid for the pine timber on any 

 particular section or groups, according to the highest value as shown 

 by the Government estimate as hereinbefore provided for, and said 

 cash or certified check shall be retained and credited as part payment 

 of the purchase price should the bid be accepted, but should the bid 

 be rejected said cash or certified check shall be immediately returned 

 to the bidder : Provided further, That said timber shall not be sold at 

 a price less than four dollars per thousand feet board measure for Nor- 

 way pine and five dollars per thousand feet board measure for white 

 pine: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may in- 

 crease said minimum price on portions of said timber as he may deem 

 just and proper: Provided further, That said Secretary may, if he 

 shall deem it best, permit the purchaser of the timber on any Govern- 

 ment section or group to erect a mill of a capacity of not less than 

 forty thousand feet board measure of lumber per day, and to manu- 

 facture thereat the timber on said Government sections or groups, 

 said mill to be located on said section or group, or at such place in 

 the immediate vicinity as may be designated by said Secretary ; and 

 the said Secretary is authorized to lease to such purchaser not exceed- 

 ing three hundred and twenty acres of land for mill purposes, for any 

 one purchase, at an annual rental to* be fixed by the Secretary of the 

 Interior, for a renewable term not exceeding ten years, said term to 

 end, in any event, so soon as the timber purchased shall have been 

 sawed and removed, said lease of land to be exclusive of the timber 



