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 404 ~ FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Srzss. I. Ch. 1157. 1902. said Forester shall be immediately notiiied by the Secretary of the Interior, tile with the Secretary of the Interior schedules designating according to Government subdivisions said agricultural lands, not to exceed fifteen thousand acres of the lands already examined and not to exceed ten thousand acres of the lands yet to be examined, which said a `cultural lands so designated shall not be offered for entry and settglment, but shall become and be a part of the forest reserve hereinbefore created. $¤1>¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¢y¢*¤- "There shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior one superintendent and suchoassistants as he may deem necessary, whose ¤¤¤¤1>¢¤¤¤¤¤¤- compensation shall be Hxed by the Secretary of the Interior, and for the superintendent shall not exceed six dollars per day, and for the assistants shall not exceed four dollars per day each, while actually em loyed, and whose duties shall be to supervise the cutting and scalin of the timber sold under the provisions of this Act, and to see that the rules and regulations prescribed by the Forester and the Secretary of the Interior are complied with, and generally to perform such services in and about the sale of the (pine timber on said lands, and the cutting of the same therefrom, an the care and protection of all timber on said lands, as may be required of them by said Forester and said Secretary. _ D¤¤¤· sm- "The Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, authorize the purchasers of timber hereunder to build on the rivers and lakes on or within said ceded lands, under such rules and regulations as he may deem proper, dams, coiferdams, booms, and to make other river and · "°"""· lake im rovements necessary to facilitate logging operations: Pro- °'“’“’“°* vided, That the parties building such dams, ooiferdams, booms, and making other river and lake improvements shall pay the officer whom ‘ the Secretary of the Interior shall designate to receive such payments · such damages as may be caused on the said ceded lands, such damages to be ascertained and determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. E"°"‘“ "All the expenses incurred in carryingl out the provisions of this Act as to the examining and listing of said lands, and the selling, cutting, and scaling of said timber, shall be paid by the Secretary of the ,*§’f,°"Q‘,{’,,em ,0 be Interior out of the proceeds of the sale of said timber: Provided, That ¤¤¤rs¤d rv 1¤<¤i¤¤¤- §dexper1’se arising out of the forestry provision shall be charged to the ians. · agfygf :f¤g_,*>g'· Sec. 3. That section seven of said Act be amended by inserting '` after the word ‘“lands," in line one thereof, the words "and timber. ’ mS°]jg_*‘°°" "’“'*' Sec. 4. That so much of the Act of June seventh, eighteen humlred Yin. so. p. vo. and ninety-seven. entitled "An Act making a proprnations for the current,and contingent expenses of the Indian lgepartment and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninet ·—eight, and for other pur(poses," as authorizes the sale of dead timber, standing or fallen, un er regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, on the Chippewa reservations and ceded lands in the State of Minne- §',;’(§’§'[,,mm,s_ sota, is hereby repealed: Provided. That nothin herein contained shall be held in any way to affect contracts alrea<g* entered into and now in force for the sale and cutting of dead timber, standing or fallen, on said reservations and ceded lands. mQ‘°"°°°”’ ‘° ’“‘“‘ Sec. 5. That the Secretarv of the Interior shall proceed as s eedily as practicable to complete the allotments to the Indians, which allotments shall be completed before opening the agricultural land to settlement. Approved, June 27. 1902.