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between sections thirty-three and thirty-four in said township and range; thence 

 northerly along the east line of sections thirty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-one 

 and sixteen in said township to a point where it intersects the right-of-way of 

 the Great Northern Railway as at present located; thence easterly along said 

 right-of-way to a point where it intersects the shore of Cass Lake at low water 

 mark in section fifteen, township one hundred and forty-five north, range thirty- 

 one west; thence northerly along the west shore of Cass Lake and the south, 

 west and north shore of Allen's Bay and the northwest shore of Cass Lake to a 

 point along the contour of said lake at low water mark at the head of the Missis- 

 sippi River, approximately in section twenty-one, township one hundred and 

 forty-six north, range thirty west; thence easterly along the right bank of said 

 river to a point where the range line between ranges twenty-nine and thirty west 

 intersects said river; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest corner 

 of section nineteen in township one hundred and forty-seven north, range twenty- 

 nine west; thence easterly along the north line of sections nineteen, twenty, 

 twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four in said township and 

 along the north side of sections nineteen and twenty in township one hundred 

 and forty-seven north, range twenty-eight west, to a point where said line inter- 

 sects the left bank of Third River at low water mark; thence northerly along 

 the right bank of Third River to the contour line at low water mark of the lake 

 formed by the waters of Third River; thence southeasterly and northerly along 

 the contour line of said lake to the point of beginning; and it is the intent of this 

 Act to include in said national forest and make a part thereof all that certain 

 territory and land which has heretofore been selected by the Forester of the 

 Department of Agriculture as the ten sections situated in townships one hundred 

 and forty-four, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and forty-six north) 

 ranges thirty and thirty-one west of the fifth principal meridian in Minnesota 

 and designated as being the ten sections referred to and authorized to be selected 

 by section two of the Act approved June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and 

 two, being chapter eleven hundred and fifty-seven. United States Statutes at 

 Large, volume thirty-two, entitled, "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; and also all 

 the islands in Cass Lake in the State of Minnesota. 



And in addition to the lands and territory above described, the lands de- 

 scribed by section two of said Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred 

 and two, as follows: "One hundred and sixty acres at the extremity of Sugar 

 Point, on Leech Lake, and the peninsula known as Pine Point, on which the 

 new Leech Lake Agency is now located" shall be included in and are hereby 

 made a part of said national forest: Provided, That this Act shall not in any 

 manner abridge the right of citizens to the use of the west and northwesterly 

 shores of Cass Lake. 



Sec. i!. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to proceed with 

 the sale of the merchantable pine timber upon the above-described land outside 

 of said ten sections and said islands and points, in conformity with the provisions 

 of said Act above entitled, and reserving ten per centum of such timber from 

 sale, said ten per centum to be designated by the Forester of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture; and as to the timber upon said ten sections and said 



