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Show 54 BEPORT OF TEE COMMISBIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. received, amount received, and quantity of timber, and take credit upon proper vouchers for all authorized disbursements. And at the end of each quarter, with his regular quarterly aash aooounts, but separately and disconnected therefrom, he shall render an aocount showing correctly and in detail these receipts and disburse- . ments. And upon each transfer of the agcnoy the outgoing agent shall pay oovr to bia successor a11 ~ s u hfn nds for which he may then be responsible, taking proper receipts therefor to be filed with his accounts. And his snocessor shall charge himself with the fuhds so reoeived and aocount for the same aa herein provided. Jnne 17,1898, Captain Scott was informed of this amendment of the regulations and instructed to permit the making of contracts for the sale of the timber on the allotments of minors in accordance therewith. Menomonee Reservation, Wia-August 11, 1897, the Department, on reoommpdation of this office, granted authority for the agent of the Green Bay Agency, Wis., to employ Menomonee Indians to carry on logging operations on their reservation for the season of 1897-98, under the provisions of the act of Jnne 12, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 146). They were to cut and bank on the rivers and tributaries of the reservation 16,000,000 feet of pine timber, or so much thereof as might be practi-cable, under the rules and regulations that governed similar operations the previous year. Acting under this authority, the Menomonee Indians, nuder the direc-tion of Agent George, cnt and banked 10,135,000 feet of logs on the Wolf River and tributaries and 5,865,000 feet of logs on the Oconto River, and on February 12,1898, the agent was authorized to advcrti~e the logs for sale. March 15, Agent George submitted an abstract of bids received, and Maroh 21 they were submitted to the Department with the recommendation that the following be accepted: Bid of Stephen Radford, of Oshkosb, Wis., for 10,136,000 feet of logs on Wolf River and tributaries, at $12.03 per 1,000 feet, and bid of Perley, Lowe & Go., of Chicago, Ill., for 5,865,000 feet of logs on south branch of Oconto River, at $13.60 per 1,000 feet. The Department, March 23, 1898, accepted the above bids, and the sale of logs to them was con-firmed. This average of $12.819 per 1,000 feet is an increase of $2.61+ per 1,000 feet over that for the season of 189697. The State of Wisconsin, April 13, 1898, attached all the logs cut and banked on the south branch of the Oconto River, claiming that of the 16,000,000 feet of logs cat 011 the reservation during the year a large amount had been cut from lands belonging to the State. Messrs. Per-ley, Lowe & Go. immediately furnished a bond of indemnity in the sum of $25,000, in order that they might not be embarrassed in disposing of the logs which they had bought. Jnne 15,1898, Mr. E. G. Mnllen, chief inspector of State lands for Wisconsin, presented the claim of the State of Wisconsin for damages by reason of the cutting and removal of certain pine timber from the swamp lands within the limits of the Menomonee Indian Reservation, which were ceded to that State on November 13,1865, Patent No. 8. This statement was transmitted to the Department June 16,1898, and next day the Department directed |
