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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. 'Sess. I. Ch. 1157 . 1902. 403 "Before bein removed from the tract from which they are cut, all mL°§,g”°'k‘”g· S°*`*1· logs cut hereunder shall be stamped and bark-marked by the logger g' ` and numbered and scaled by competent and ex erienced scalers, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and id such reasonable salaries as may be fixed by him. Said scalers shhlll keep in suitable €t§¤°°"l °* ¤mk¤· books for reference a record of the marks, also a complete list of the° numbers of all logs, with the scale of each log set opposite its number, said scale books to be open to the inspection of the check sealer or to any authorized Government representative at all times; and said logs shall be landed separately from all other logs, and the title to said logs shall remain in the United States for the benefit of the Indians; and P¤Y¤¤¤¤¢· said logs shall not be removed from the place of landing until the purchase price agreed upon shall be fully paid to such officer of the Indian Department as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior to account for and receive the same. And the Secretary of the Interior I¤¤P¢¤¤¤¤- may, at the re uest of the chiefs of said bands or tribes of Chippewa Indians of theibtate of Minnesota interested in the said timber sales, appoint check scalers to verify and inspect the work of the Government Sealers; the said check scalers to be designated by said chiefs and paid out of the funds of the Indians such reasonable compensation as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. "After the merchantable pine timber on any tract, subdivision, or lot euQl?;¤ °° h°m°¤*¤¤d shall have been removed, such tract, subdivision, or lot shall, except ` on the forestry lands aforesaid, for the pur ses of this Act, be classed and treated as agricultural lands, and shalbbe opened to homestead _ entry in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That {-°Q‘§§'g{°;m,v,,_ on the forestry lands aforesaid, as soon as the merchantable pine timber now thereon shall have been removed from any tract, subdivision, or lot, as herein provided, such tract, subdivision, or lot shall, without further Act, resolution, or proclamation, forthwith become and be part of a forest reserve. the same as though set apart by proclamation of the President in accordance with the Act of Congress approved W- 26-1* 1103- March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and subsequent laws amending and supplementing the same, and shall be managed and protected in accordance with their provisions and the rules and regulations made and to be made in furtherance thereof: A12dprm·idedjiu·- they-, That on said forestry lands aforesaid said pine timber shall he ,n{§g{jfj“>' '**“" ’°¤“ cut clean, except as to the five per centum as hereinbefore provided, ` and removed under the supervision and direction of the Forester of the Department of Agricu ture, in accordance with rules and regulations to be rescribed by him and a proved by the Secretary o the Interior, and the said Forester shall have power at all times to patrol and protect said lands and forests, and to enforce all rules and regulations made by him as aforesaid. "As soon as practicable after the passage of this Act the Secretary mf{{"‘§}‘§';,m§§ffQji of the interior shall open to homestead settlement, as herein provide, hudsthe lands on all the reservations, or portions of reservations, which have been ceded to the United States by the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, including the four reservations last aforesaid, which have been examined and found to be agricultural lands, and shall immediately proceed to have examined, as herein provided, the remaining lands, and shall without delay open to homestead settlement those foun to be agricultural lands: [7·m,·zded, That on the four reservations last fggygyituru, mm aforesaid, where agricultural lands are included within oi· contiguous resmm. to forestry lands and are. in the opinion of the Forester of the Agricultural Department, necessary to the economical administration and protection of the same, said Forester shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act as to those lands which have already been examined, and as to the lands not yet examined immediately after the examination and approval of the lists of said lands, of which approval