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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OR INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49 respectfully recommend that these rules be adopted for theloggingoperations of the coming winter with the one amendment that the limit to pay no more than $5 per M feet be modified so as to sllow of $6 per 3%t o be paid in contracts where the log-ging superintondent shd1 deem it necessary to do ao. In this connection I should like to be inatruoted as to the interpretation of the law as to the amount to be lumbered. Can the $75,000 set apart for the work be expended on any less amount than the 20,000,000 feet B. M. vhioh the act provides shell not he exaeededs November 1, 1893, I addressed the following communication to the Department: I have the honor to submit a oommunioetion from Thomas R. Savage; agent at Green Bay Agency, Niseonsin, in reply to a request from this offlce that he and the snperintendent of Menomonee logging, under act of June 12, 1890 (26 Stats., 146), would prapara for your approval, as required by WI, act, a set of roles to govern their logging operations during the eoming winter. Agent Savage states that be oonsiders the rules mhioh were in force last eaaon can not be improved npon, except that the limit in the first seetion of $6 per M feet es the highest price to bo paid for logging is too lqw and should be placed at $6. He does not give his reason fbr the recommendation, but they are apparsnt from the facts stated in the inclosed oommuuicationa, to mit: The good timber is now farther from the river hanks, and new ractda will have to be made, and, awing to bad msnagenk?nt of the former superintendent. the cutting so far has been very irree-ulas.. muc h raluclble thoneb defectire timber hnvine been left stnndin-e soet-tered an the land cut over, vhioh it ia proposed shall now be banked, if praotioable. In view of all the facts I respect full^ recommend that the xulea eatavblished for last season be again approved, with this modification, vie: 1. That the agent at Green Bay Agency, Wis., with the assistance of the superin-tendent of logging, enter into agreements with individual Menomonees, to pay each a certain price for timber delivered upon the liver banks; separate contracts to be made for delivery of pine from those made for rlelivery of other kinds of timber; that in no case shall more than $6 per M feet be paid for pine or $2.50 per M feet for any other kind of timber; end that all ngreernents shall be made subject to the approval of the Commifisioua of Indian Affairs. 2. That each eootraotor, or boss of a. sqnad, be p i d arate, to be agreedupon, for out-ting and banking timber, in proportion to snd in harmony with all the oonditiona under whioh the timber he is to out and bank is situated; the loostiou of each oon-tractor's timber, price to be allowed him per M feet, md number of feet he will be allowed to bmk to he determined npon and named in eaoh eontraot before sign-ing; said oontrauta to be executed in duplioi~teo, ne copy to be handed to the logger, and sll neoessmy inatruotions given to him before he commences operation, to abide hy which he must signify his full consent. 3. Thibt a. definite time be agreed upon and named in eaoh oontrsot for oommeno-ing work by each oontraotor, and a date fixed by the agent and superintendent, of whioh due notice will be given to the Indi~nsa; fter whioh no more ilppliostions for the privilege of logging will be received, or contraots made. 4. That any contractor banking more logs than his eontraot calls for shall forfeit the surplus. 5. That a sufficient number of scalers and assistant aoalelere be employed to keep the logs scaled np every week, and to be sworn to perform their duties faithfully, the soalers to be paid $2.50 per day and the assistant scalers $2 per day each, with-out board. 6. That the scalers make report to the agent every two weeks, shoving the exaet number of feet bsnked by each contraotor doring that time. 7. That when one-half of the logs oontrnoted for by any Menomonee shall be banked as required and measurement of the same returned to the agent, 50 per cent 6655 I A-4 |