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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. 35] That the restrictions upon the alienation upon the allotment of fgj-;;}iO§1°¤$Y-t ,_ James I. Coife, Chippewa allottee number one hundred and twenty- tions removed. as m" three, of the Fbnd du Lac (Minnesota) band, are hereby removed, and patent may issue therefor. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed ,,{$·G§,,gQ§‘f‘{{bj,‘;{j[ to pay to D. C. Lightbourn, of Ada, Minnesota, the sum of one thou- ¤¤¤,g;__ _ _ sand two hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-five cents; and to pew»li]i¤iK1°¤ir°m°h"°` George D. Hamilton, of Detroit, Minnesota, the sum of eight hundred and thirty dollars, out of any moneys standing to the credit of the _ Chippewa Indians, of Mississippi, in payment for bills incurred in advertising; and the said sums are hereby appropriated for said purpose: Pwvided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall first examine Prmso. said accounts and approve the same. That the sum of two thousand two Sl?;?}':;; H_ Am,. hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby ”"’,§’,"y$,;m,,,0 appropriated, to settle the account of Charles H. Armstrong on con- ` tract numbered one hundred and fifteen for survey of Indian lands in the State of Minnesota. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treas- MQQW F"' *’“""” ury not otherwise appropriate, the sum of two thousand and ninety-one Pwmeut w- do lars and ninety-two cents, and the Secretary of the Treasury.is hereby authorized and directed to pay said sum to Alice Fairbanks _ Mee, administratrix of the late George Fairbanks, formerly a member of the iirm of Fairbanks Brothers, assignees of W. R. Spears, of claims a inst Chippewa Indian loggers on the Red Lake Reservation during the logging season of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hun red and eighty-five, said sum to be immediately availab e: Provided, That Alice Fairbanks Mee shall furnish satisfactory Prawn. evidence to the Secretary of the Interior that she is the rightful owner Evm°°°° "°°"°d' of the claim, the amount being a balance due on time checks and supplies furnished said loggers enga ed in logging under contract with Frank J. J ohnson: P1·0v·idedfur2§er, That no part of the amount to Cgict chargeable m be charged against any funds belonging to the Chi pewa Indians. 1pi’°w°S' That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he isdnereby, authorized ,,f,f,{,‘Q.“Q,',§,°;,',§.'?,’j,§.._'° to return to the several purchasers of the pine timber from the lands of the ceded Chippewa Indian Reservations, in the State of Minnesota, at sales held, or to be held, under the Act of January fourteenth, V¤'·25·P·6·i·*· eighteen hundred andeighty-nine, as amended by the Act of June V·*l·32·v-*8- twenty-seventh, nineteen {hundred and two, such amounts as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, after the scale books have been rechecked, to have been paid by said purchasers on their completed contracts in excess of the correct amount due for the timber cut from the land. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pa from m¥_·;e§]¤g’*¤ *‘*P*~*""· the proceeds of the sale of timber on ceded Chippewa lands in Minne- ` sota, under the Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and v¤1.:;z.1>-44M- two, to the superintendent of logging appointed under said Act four dollars and to his assistant superintendent two dollars and fifty cents per diem in lieu of subsistence while on duty, said allowances for subsistence to date from the date of appointment of such superintendent and assistants. That for the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber Ti'""°' Pumon the ten sections of land in the Chippewa of the Mississippi Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, reserved from sale or settle- V°‘·’5·P·'““- ment in accordance with the (provisions of the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred an eightyminc. as amended by the Act of · V°""·"· ‘"°‘ June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may sell, at not less than a minimum mice to be iixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the down timber, bot merchantable and unmerchantable, the latter to be sold as cord wood, on said ten sections, as well as the