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Show September 28 the office informed the ageut of this decision, and added : Your suggestion that s provision be insorted allowing tho Meuomonees to market the tops end butts for shingle boltn was not thought to be advisable, in view of the fact that an inspeotor had reporter1 thatthey aotedin bndfaith before, andalthongh it may be that after their season of regidar logging is over they may be allowed, under proper rules for the prevention of abuses, to market tbe refase timber, na action in that direction will be t :~kenn ow, as they might, notwithstanding all your efforts to prevent, repeat rheir outting of short timber so as to bring it into the shingle-bolt class while engaged in their regular (lumber) timber cutting. Yon should bring this matter to the attention of this office again at the proper time. On the lOtli of the followiug January the agent reported that as the snow had fallen earlier than usual it would be wise to offer the logs for sale early that bidders might have the advantage of the spring floods. Cousequently the Department, nuder date of January 18, 1893, authorized the followi~lg advertisetneut to be published for a period of three weeks in the daily editious of the Milwaukee Sentinel, Oshkosh Northwestern, and Green Bay Gazette. IhPIAN LOGS FOX SA1.E MENOMONEE. Sealed proposals marked "Bids for Menornonee logs," addressed to the nnder-signed, will be received until 2 o'clock, p. m. of Monday, February 20,1892. There are to be sold not to exceed 20,000,000 feet of pine logs, now banked or te bo banked partly on the south branch of the Oconto River and partly on the Wolf River and tributaries, on the Menomonee Reserv~tioui n Wisconsin, in five lots, and in anantities nearlv as follows: Not exceeding 4,&00.234 feet on Wolf River, marked U. S. 1. Not exceedini.4,628,502 feet on Little Went Branch of Wolf River, marked U. S. 2. Not esceeding 2,457,106 feet on West Branch of Wolf River, marked U. S. 3. Not exceeding 3,885,656 feet below damon South Branoh of Oconto, markcd U. S.5.. Not excoedinn- 4.,62 8.,5 03 feet above dam on South Brsneh of Ooonto. marked U. S. 6. Saparatc bids !rill be oonsiderecl for each lot. The logs will be ~oaledb y sworn soalcrs, wllose work can be readily tested. Payment for the logs must be made within teu days after notification of a oon-firmation of sale. No log8 to Le removed from tllc reservation until paid for. &oh bid, to be considered, must be accompanied by a certified check for 5 per-oent of the amolmt of the bid (or as near that per cent as practicable to asoer-tain) on some 1Tnited States de1,ository or solvent national bank, drawn to the order of the undersi,med as United States Indian agent. The bids vill be opened in the presence of the bidders, in the office of the Green. Bay Agency, at Iceshena, Wis., at 2 o'clock p. m, of February 20,1893. Awards will be made to the highest bidder or bidders, bnt no sale to be valid until confirmed by the honorable Secretary of the Interior, who reserves the right to reject any or all bids, if to do so is believer1 to be for the best intereat of the Indians. Checkv of parties whose bids are not accepted r i l l be returuedto them afterthe sale has been consummated. If parties whose bids are accepted fail to oomply with, |