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Show of prioe for banking snch logs may be paid to aueh contractor; and when the entire oontrsot shall be completed, fall payment. shall be made on the 15th day of April, 1894, or as Boon thereafter as praotioable, and the logger shall pay all arrearage8 for labor at this latter pityment. 8. That contractors shall pay a fair, reasonable, and usual rate of wsges to their adstants, and shnll, under the supervision of the snperintendeut, furnish theagent with a monthly statement showing the amount due to each laborer at the end of every month. 9. That no outside Indian he allowed to assid in banking Monomonee logs with-out the consent of the agent and superintendent, Menomonee Indians to have the preferenoe in all cases. 10. That no squawman or white man of any class be allowed to take part in the logging, in any capacity whatever, except when authorieed by the agent 8x111 approved by the Department. 11. That no contraotor shnll be interested in more than one contract at the same time. 12. That all trader8 or other persons supplying the Indians with goods for the log-ging be required to furnish s. prioe lint, a, statement of their accounts with the Indians, and whenever so required an itemized statement of goods furnished. 13. Thit the agent may give the contraotor a. statement showi-gthe amount then due and the amount (60 per cent) reserved for labor, provided that it is expressly stated that nneither the Government nor the agent guarantees any paxt of the indebt-eduess that thelogger may incur. 14. That no logs are to be scaled unless properly landedimdu~axkeda, ndlandings slnd rollways oleared before logs ate landed. November 4,1893, these rules were returned approved, as follows: I acknowledge the receipt of your oommunication of 1st instant, relative to log-ging operations by the Menomonee Indians for the aeaeon 1893'94. ' Authority is hereby granted far your oEoe to instruot the sgent pf the Green Bray Agenoy, Wis., to employ, at reasonnhle compensation, the Mrnomonee Indiens to out and bank ss hereafter provided not exceeding 20,000,000 of feet of timber on the lallds reserved for them, and, in accordance with your recommendation, the roles govermng lsst year's logging operations by the said Indians, under the provisions of the act of June 12, 1890 (26 Stats., 146), modified as set out in your letter so as to allow not more than $6 per M feet to be paid for pine timber, instead of $5 per M feet for said timber, ern hereby approved for the season 1893 and 1894, and you are hereby directed to instruct the sgent of the Green Bay Agenoy to confine the out-ting so thatthedeadand down timber and the timber left standing scattered on the landheretofore ont dvershallbeout aodbsnkedbeforemy new18.nd~areo utover, and in the cotting of tope and butta into shingle bolts you will direct that no timber \ which will make a merchantable saw log ahall be cut into shingle bolts. November 8, 1893, I instructed Agent Savage as follows: Your communication of 21th ultimo was received, wherein yon stated that the rolea adopted last rear for logging are as good sa yon can now formulate, except that the maximum sum to be paid'fir banking pi110 timber should be placed at $6 instead of $5 per M feet,, as in the former bill. In view of your explanation, and an recommendstion of this office, the Depart-ment, under date of 4th instant, has approved the rules for lsst year snd authorized them to be used this year, exoept that $6 may be paid, when actually necessary snd Droner. for bankinn nine timber. I will inolosa s ooov of the Seoretilrr's letter for - A . -. yoor information. You will ol,serve that you are to confine the cutting to dead and down timber and the timber left standine scattered on the land heretofore out over until the 20,000.000 feet is banked. |