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 400 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1156, 1157. 1902. the United States shall be accepted as full and satisfactory proof of 0¤¤¤¤•=¢· such enlistment and service: Andprm>idedfnrthe7·, That all contracts heretofore made between the beneficiaries under this Act and pension attorneys and claim agents are hereby declared null and void. Approved, June 27. 1902. _ June 27, IW CHAP. 1 157.-An Act To amend an Actentitled "An Act for the relief and civili- zatiou of the Chippewa Indiansin the State of Minnesota/’ approved January tourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives 0 f the United °f°§£°£m I¤d*¤¤¤ States of America in Congress assemble, That section four of an Act Relief amibavium- entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa mdoffg, p_ 6.,3 Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be, andthe same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: ,8_§‘5f“Y °‘ °°d°‘* "S1:c. 4. That as soon as the cession and relinquishment of said Indian title has been obtained and approved as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Oifice to cause the land so ceded to the United States to be surveyed in the manner provided by law for the survey of public lands, and as soon as practicable after such survey has been made and the report, Held notes, and plats thereof filed in the General Land Office and duly approved by the Commissioner thereof, the said Secretariy of the Interior, upon notice of the completion of such surveys, shal appoint a sufficient number of competent and experienced examiners, in order that the work may be done within a reasonable time, who shall go upon said lands thus surveyed and personally make a careful, complete, and thorough examination of i¤*° the same by forty-acre lots, for the purpose of ascertaining on which ' lots or tracts there is standing or growing pine timber, w ich tracts on which pine timber is standing or growing for the purposes of this “““°l“°"“·" Act shall be termed ‘ wine lands,’ the minutes of such examination to be at the time entered in books rovided for that purpose, showing which of such lands are pine lands and which are agricultural lands, as hereinafter designated, which re orts of all such examinations shall be tiled with the Commissioner of the General Land Office as a part of the permanent records thereof. and thereupon that officer shall cause to be made lists of all such pine lands and agricultural lands, describing b Lgsisrtgaggggpgoged each forty-acre lot or tract thereof separately, and thereupon such lists ‘ {A5; ° ‘ ° n of land shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior fo1· approval. modification, or rejection, as he may deem proper. If the lists thus made are rejected as a whole, then the Secretary of the Interior shall substitute new lists, and the same or original lists as approved or modified shall be tiled with the Commissioner of the General) Land ¤¤¤v“¤¤¤·=**¤¤~ str- Office as the lists of said lands. Duplicate lists of said lands, togethe1· with copies of the tield notes, surveys, a11d minutes of examination. shall be filed and ke t in the office of the register of the land 0H:ice of C°F’*°’ "‘ um- the district within which said lands may be situated, and copies of said lists shall be furnished to any person desiring the same upon application to the Commissioner of the General Land Office or to the register of said local land office. (_0f1*;g;‘$;gf** diem "The compensation of the examiners so provided for in this section A shall be tixe by the Secretary of the Interior, but in no event shall exceed the sum of eight dollars per day for each person so employed, including all expenses. i ,g;d·;$,¤i°¤ I * uml "All other lands acquired from the said Indians on said reservations, ` other than pine lands. are for the purposes of this Act termed ‘agricultural lands."`