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 644 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 24. 1889. information, but such valuation shall not be at a rate of less than three dollars er thousand feet, board measure of the pine timber thereon, and thereupon such lists of lands so appraised shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior for approval, modification, or rejection, as he may deem proper. If the appraisals are rejected as New appraisals a whole then the Secretary of the Interior shall substitute a new appraisal and the same or original list as approved or modified shall be led with the Commissioner of the General Land Office as the ap; praisal of said lands, and as constituting the minimum price for whic said lands may be sold, as hereinafter provided, but in no event shall said pine lands be a praised at a rate of less than three dollars per thousand feet boardp measure of the pine timber thereon. Duplicate Um *° "° md- lists of said lands as appraised, together with copies of the field-notes, »surveys, and minutes of examinations shall be filed and kept in the office of the register of the land office of the district within W ich said lands ma be situated, and copies of said lists with the appraisals shall be furnislied to any person desiring the same upon app ication to the Commissioner of the General Land Office or to the register of said · local land office. Pay of exammers. The compensation of the examiners so provided for in this section _ shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, but in no event shall . exceed the sum of six dollars per day for·each person so employed, including all expenses. ugricuiaunn All other lan s acquired from the said Indians on said reservations "°°“‘ other than pine lands are for the purposes of this act termed ‘ ‘ agricultural lands. S¤¤¤<>f Pi¤¤l|¤dS·. Sec. 5. That after the survey, examination, and appraisals of said ‘ pine lands has been fully completed they shall be proclaimed as in market and offered for sale in the following manner: The Commis- ' sioner of the General Land Office shall cause notices to be inserted M,,,,;,,,,,,,,_ once in each week for four successive weeks in one newspaper of general circulation published in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Duluth, and Crookston, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Philadelphia and WiHiamsport, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts, o the sale of said lands at public auction Auction mm. to the highest bidder for cash at the local land office of the district within w ich said lands are located, said notice to state the time andplace and terms of such sale. At such sale said lands shall be offered in forty-acre lparcels, except in case of fractions containing either more or less t an forty acres, which shall be sold entire. In no event shall any parcel be so d for a less sum than its appraised value. The residue of such lands remaining unsold after such public offerin mms sale. shall thereafter be subject to private sale for cash at the appraised value of the same upon application at the local land office. sus or agricultural Sec. 6. That when any of the agricultural lands on said reserva- "‘“"“· tion not allotted under this act nor reserved for the future use of said Indians have been surveyed, the Secretary of the Interior shall give thirty days’ notice throu h at least one newspaper published at Saint Paul and Crookston, in the State of Minnesota, and, at the ex iration of thirt days, the said agricultural lands so surveyed, shalllbe disro be sold under posed of by the United States to actual settlers only under the pro- ‘*°?,';°,,,"F,,,,f‘{""· visions of the homestead law: Provided, That each settler under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws shall a to the 1>n¤e,m. United States for the land so taken by him the sum of one d)oll/ar and twenty-five cents for each and .every acre, in five equal annual pay- ments, and shall be entitled to a patent therefor only at the expiration of five years from the date of entry, according to said homestead laws, and after the full payment of said one dollar and twenty-five . cents per acre therefor, and due proof of occupancy for said eriod of five years; and any conveyance of said lands so taken as al1omestead, or any contract touching the same, prior to the date of final