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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 193. 1908. 271 pose of so much of the standing timber thereon as he may deem wise and advisable in the conduct of a National Forest: Provided, That a g;1"'§§_*;_m ,0 _ commission of three persons shall at once be appointed, consisting of praise timber i-esewi; one [ierson to be designated by the President, one by the Secretary of the nterior, and one by a general council of the Indians of the Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, and Leech Lake Reservation to be held under the direction of the agent at Leech Lake Indian Agency; and said commissioners shall proceed forthwith to appraise the value of the five per centum of timber heretofore reserve from sale by the provisions of said Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the V°l- 2"· P- **3- relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota} " approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten per centum hereafter reserved under the provisions of this Act, and the timber upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and points, and shall ascertain the acreage of actual land included under the provisions of this Act and to the estimated value of said five per centum of timber reserved under the said Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,"’ approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten per centum reserved under this Act and the estimated value of timber upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and points, to the sum of the values of the timber so estimated shall add an amount equal to one dollar and twenty-five cents for each and every acre of land not otherwise appropriated which they find covered by the tprovisions of this Act, and s all certify the same ·to the Secretary of e Interior. The Indians _ Appeal from mndesignated in this section, actingthrough a representative who shall “‘g°‘°‘°°""*"”*°"· serve without compensation, to be name by them at the time of thei1· appointment of the commissioner herein, shall have sixty days in which to appeal to the President of the United States from the findings of said commissioners, as certified to the Secretary of the Interior. At the Fgirgds ggwigduw end of said sixty days, if no appeal has been taken or if an appeal has °’° ° mm been taken, then, upon the determination thereof by the President. the Secretary of the Interior shall certify the amount found by said commissioners, or if modified by the President the amount determined by him, to the Secretary of the 'I`reasury, who shall thereupon place such amount to the credit of all the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota as a part of the permanent fund of said "All of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota" rovided for in an Act of \’··1·2’>.p.M‘#· Congress entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," approved January fourteent , eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts supplementary thereto, and the amounts so certified to the Secretary of the Treasury shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, pursuant to the terms of said Acts. Sec. 3. That any Indian having an allotment within the limits of the H-=gg;¤:§g¤ MY *>° National Forest created by this Act is hereby authorized to relinquish ` such allotment and permitted to take another allotment in lieu thereof outside such National Forest, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and the allotments of any deceased Indians located within the boundaries of said National Forest shall not hereafter be disposed of under section seven of the Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen \‘¤>1·3·z.p.2’l5- hundred and two (volume thirty-second Statutes at Largle, page two hundred and forty-five); but the heirs of said deceased dians shall have the right, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and _ _ under such rules as he may prescribe, to relinquish to the United ,,,,*f,‘;f,},§‘c}§},‘,§f‘l"““"° States the lands covered by such allotments and to select surveyed, unappropriated, unreserved land within the limits of any of the ceded Indian lands in the State of Minnesota and outside of the National