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[CITE: 25USC197]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                    CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 197. Disposition of dead timber on reservations in 
        Minnesota
        
    The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, from year to 
year, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the Indians 
residing on any Indian reservation in the State of Minnesota, whether 
the same has been allotted in severalty or is still unallotted, to fell, 
cut, remove, sell, or otherwise dispose of the dead timber, standing or 
fallen on such reservation or any part thereof, for the sole benefit of 
such Indians; and he may also in like manner authorize the Chippewa 
Indians of Minnesota who have any interest or right in the proceeds 
derived from the sales of ceded Indian lands or the timber growing 
thereon, whereof the fee is still in the United States, to fell, cut, 
remove, or dispose of the dead timber, otherwise than by sale, standing 
or fallen, on such ceded land. But whenever there is reason to believe 
that such dead timber in either case has been killed, burned, girdled, 
or otherwise injured for the purpose of securing its sale under this 
section, then in that case authority shall not be granted.

(June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)


            Chippewa Reservation and Ceded Lands in Minnesota

    Act June 27, 1902, ch. 1157, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 404, provided: ``That 
so much of the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 
entitled `An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent 
expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations 
with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, 
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,' as 
authorizes the sale of dead timber, standing or fallen, under 
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, on the Chippewa 
reservations and ceded lands in the State of Minnesota, is hereby 
repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be held in any 
way to affect contracts already entered into and now in force for the 
sale and cutting of dead timber, standing or fallen, on said 
reservations and ceded lands.''
