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islands and points, the said Forester is authorized, under such rules and regula- 

 tions as he may prescribe from time to time, to sell and dispose of so much of 

 the standing timber thereon as he may deem wise and advisable in the conduct 

 of a National Forest: Provided, That a commission of three persons shall at 

 once be appointed, consisting of one person to be designated by the President, 

 one by the Secretary of the Interior, and one by a general council of the Indians 

 of the Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, 

 and Leech Lake Reservation, to be held under the direction of the agent at Leech 

 Lake Indian Agency; and said commissioners shall proceed forthwith to appraise 

 the value of the five per centum of timber heretofore reserved from sale by the 

 provisions of said Act 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 the ten 

 per centum hereafter reserved under the provisions of this Act, and the timber 

 upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and 

 points, and shall ascertain the acreage of actual land included under the pro- 

 visions of this Act and to the estimated value of said five per centum of timber 

 reserved under the said Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act 

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

 sota,' " approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and 

 the ten per centum reserved under this Act and the estimated value of timber 

 upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and 

 points, to the sum of the values of the timber so estimated shall add an amount 

 equal to one dollar and twenty-five cents for each and every acre of land not 

 otherwise appropriated which they find covered by the provisions of this Act, 

 and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior. The Indians desig- 

 nated in this section, acting through a representative who shall serve without 

 compensation, to be named by them at the time of their appointment of the 

 commissioner herein, shall have sixty days in which to appeal to the President 

 of the United States from the findings of said commissioners, as certified to the 

 Secretary of the Interior. At the end of said sixty days, if no appeal has been 

 taken or if an appeal has been taken, then, upon the determination thereof by 

 the President, the Secretary of the Interior shall certify the amount found by said 

 commissioners, or if modified by the President, the amount determined by him, 

 to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon place such amount to the 

 credit of all the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota as a part of the 

 permanent fund of said "All of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota'' 

 provided 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 four- 

 teenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts supplementary thereto, 

 and the amounts so certified to the Secretary of the Treasury shall draw interest 

 at the rate of five per centum per annum, pursuant to the terms of said Acts. 



Sec. i- That any Indian having an allotment within the limits of the 

 National Forest created by this Act is hereby authorized to relinquish such 

 allotment and permitted to take another allotment in lieu thereof outside such 

 National Forest, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and the 

 allotments of any deceased Indians located within the boundaries of said National 

 Forest shall not hereafter be disposed of under section seven of the Act of June 



