Bond and oath of commissioners.
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faithful discharge
of their duties, each give a bond to the United States in the sum of
ten thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the
Secretary of the Interior, and conditioned for the faithful discharge
of their duties under this act, and they shall also each take an oath
to support the Constitution of the United States, and to faithfully
discharge the duties of their office, which bonds and oaths shall be
filed with the Secretary of the Interior.
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Said commissioners
shall be entitled to a compensation of ten dollars per day for each day
actually employed in the discharge of their duties, and for their
actual traveling expenses and board, not exceeding three dollars per
day.
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Interpreter.
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Said commissioners
shall also be authorized to employ a competent interpreter while
engaged in the performance of their duties, at a compensation and
allowance to be fixed by them, not in excess of that allowed to each of
them under this act.
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Removal
of Indians to White Earth
Reservation.
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SEC. 3. That as
soon as the census has been taken, and the cession and relinquishment
has been obtained, approved, and ratified, as specified in section one
of this act, all of said Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,
except those on the Red Lake Reservation, shall, under the direction of
said commissioners, be removed to and take up their residence on the
White Earth Reservation,
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Allotment of lands on Red Lake
Reservation.
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and thereupon there
shall, as soon as practicable, under the direction of said
commissioners, be allotted lands in severalty to the Red Lake Indians
on Red Lake Reservation, and to all the other of said Indians on White
Earth Reservation, in conformity with the
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are hereby ratified
and confirmed with the like tenure and condition prescribed for all
allotments under this act:
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Prior allotments confirmed
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and the
acceptance and approval of such cession and relinquishment by the
President of the United States shall, be deemed full and ample proof of
the assent of the Indians, and shall operate as a complete
extinguishment of the Indian title without any other or further act or
ceremony whatsoever for the purposes and upon the terms in this act
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Provisos.
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Provided, however, That the amount
heretofore allotted to any Indian on White Earth Reservation
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Deductions.
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shall be deducted
from the amount of allotment to which he or she is entitled under this
act: Provided
further,
That any of the Indians residing on any of said reservations may,
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Allotments on other reservations.
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in his discretion,
take his allotment in severalty under this act on the reservation where
he lives at the time of the removal herein provided for is effected,
instead of being removed to and taking such allotment on White Earth
Reservation.
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Survey of ceded lands.
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SEC. 4. That as
soon as the cession and relinquishment of said Indian title has been
obtained and approved as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the
Commissioners of the General Land Office to cause the lands so ceded to
the United States to be surveyed in the manner provided by law for the
survey of public lands, and as soon as practicable after such survey
has been made, and the report, field-notes, and plats thereof filed in
the General Land Office, and duly approved by the Commissioner thereof,
the said Secretary of the Interior, upon notice of the completion or
such surveys shall appoint a sufficient number of competent and
experienced examiners, in order that the work may be done within a
reasonable time,
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Subdivision into forty-acre lots.
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who shall go upon
said lands thus surveyed and personally make a careful, complete, and
thorough examination of the same by forty-acre lots, for the purpose of
ascertaining on which lots or tracts there is standing or growing pine
timber,
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"Pine lands."
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which tracts on
which pine timber is standing or growing for the
purposes of this act shall be termed " pine lands," the minutes of such
examination to be at the time entered in books provided for that
purpose, showing with particularity the amount and quality of all pine
timber standing or growing on any lot or tract, the amount such pine
timber to be estimated by feet in the manner usual in estimating such
timber, which estimates and reports of all such examinations shall be
filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office as a part of the
permanent records thereof, and thereupon that officer shall cause to be
made a list of all such pine lands, describing each forty-acre lot or
tract thereof separately,
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Minimum Valuations
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and opposite each
such description he shall place the actual cash value
of the same, according to his best judgment and
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