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 402 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1157. 1909. “m°°*P“*’“°°“*°”- reject an_y and all bids, the first publication of said notices to be at least six calendar months prior to said sale, said notices to state the time and place and the terms of such sale, and to contain a general description of the lands from which the timber is to be sold, and shall refer intending bidders to the printed lists to be obtained from the Commissioner of the General Land Office or register of the local land _ office, as rovided in section four of this Act. Said notices shall also Q‘§,’§';§‘§,';,,,,¤0,,c€ Upstate in wlhat tracts or parcels the timber is to be sold: Provided, That dm of we- one additional notice calling attention particularly to the date of the sale shall be ublished thirt days rior to the day fixed for the sale ¤,5f’°°"’ '°'""` in the first adgertisement: }gi0cidedP_j‘in·¢he¢·, That in cutting the timber on two hundred thousand acres of the pine lands, to be selected as soon as practicable by the Forester of the epartment of Agriculture, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, on the following reservations, to wit, Chip was of the Mississippi, Leech Lake, Cass .Lake. and Winnebigoshislize which said lands so se ected shall be known and hereinafter described as ‘forestry lands,’ the purchaser shall be required to leave standing five per centum of the pine timber thereon for the purpose of reforestation, as hereinafter provided, said five per C centum to be selected and reserved in such manner and under such miles and regulations as may be prescribed by the Forester of the Depart- __ ment of A riculture and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: m;‘,,‘}f"“°”'·' "”°"“‘ Provided zrtm, That there shall be reserved from sale or settlement the timber and land on the islands in Cass Lake and in Leech Lake, and not less than 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, which peninsula approximates seven thousand acres, and in addition thereto ten sections in area on said reservations last aforesaid, to be selected by the Forester of the Department of Agriculture, with the approval of the _ Secretary of the Interior, in lots not less than three hundred and d,j;°g:f:,§ec}°ed 1* twenty acres each in contiguous areas, and nothing herein contained ` shall interfere with the allotments to the Indians heretofore and hereafter made. The islands in Cass and Leech lakes and the land reserved at Sugar Point and Pine Point Peninsula shall remain as Indian land under the control of the Department of the Interior. ,,,Z§{§P“ °f ""°°" "Each and every purchaser of timber hereunder shall be required and shall enter into an a reement to cut clean and remove all the merchantable pine timber, wdiether green or dead, standing or fallen, on each tract, subdivision, or lot covered by his purchase, except on the forestry lands as herein before provided, within such time as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and to cut no timber other than pine, except such as may bea solutely necessary in the economical conduct of the logging operations, and to burn or remove a sufficient amount of the tops and refuse to prevent danger from fire to the timber left standing, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of l¤dl*¤ *****0*- the Interior, and. when practicable, to employ Indian labor in the cut- B°¤d- ting, handling, and manufacture of said timber. And each and every pprchaser shall be required to give a bond in a sufficient nalty, to approved by the Secretary of the Interior, for the faithfullwperformance of said agreement and fO1' the observance of the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior concerning the sale, cutting, and removal f,’[,*j;@°;md Wm_ of such timber: 1’2·0v¢'decl, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, sum. upon application, furnish to any persons who may expect to bid, not more t an ninety days prior to the date of the sale of any pine timber hereinbefore mentioned, a statement of the rules and regulations under which said pine timber shall be cut and the tops and refuse thereof burnt or removed, and of the time within which said timber must be removed. '