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Show 00MMI8RIONER OF INDIAN AEFAIR8. 81 their allotments under the act of April 21, 1904. On October 11 the Office recommended that the authority requested by the agent be panted, and that paragraph 5 of the regulations of December 29, 1903, be amended, so as to read : In accordance with the provisions of the act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 189), Indians to whom allotments have been made within the limits of the White Earth Diminished Reservation, and trust or other patents issued, containing restrictions upon alienation, are authorized to dispose of the timber on their respective allotments with the consent of the United States Indian agent, or they may log it themselves, but if they enter into contracts with other Indians or persons not of Indian blood to do the logging, such- contracts shall have no validity until approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Department authority was granted on October 14, the regulations ' prepared especially for the cutting and marketing of certain blown-down timber on the reservation were declared to be still in force, and section 5 was amended as indicated above. All the contracts, whether covering allotted or unallotted lands, expired with April 15,1905. On July 10 the agent reported the suc-cess of the operations for the logging season of 19065 as follows: I b t . Deed and down whitosnd Xorwag. ............... ' 4.WO.b"l I Qmon =llte, c:!>i ??OM roadwap. ................. Y Yfl I Green Sorwsg, rut from rosdweyr ............... --*?:-M LW.W.61 IZU.W.93 W4,W.ea Cutfrom allotted l a d s . - -6,asS-,wO 1 Dead 8nd down white and Norway ................. areen white and Nomay ........................... 8,078 170 spruea,. ............................................... Jsclrpme ............................................. $3 19.m.M = 9 U 8 8 8,191,250 1 BANK DEP08ITB OF ALMTTEES. The allottees on the different reservations, under the supervision of the La Pointe Agency, except Grand Portage, and the allottees of the White Earth Diminished Reservation, are not allowed to with-draw from deposit, except with the consent of this Office, more than $10 per month for adults and $5 for minors, with the exception of eome aged and indigent Indians of the La Pointe Agency, who are permitted to withdraw $20 per month without specific authority from the O5ce. If an allottee desires to withdraw more than the amounts above mentioned, he is required to make application to the agent, setting forth fully the disposition he purposes to make of the money when withdrawn. The agent investigates the case and refers |