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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 51 All mapa presented for l~ppro~ashl onld be drawn on tracing linen, the scale not less than.2,000 feet to the inoh, and shonld be filed in duplicate. These requirements follow, as far as practicable, the published regulations gov-erning the practice of the General Land Office with regard to railwnp over the publio lands, and they are, of eomse, subject ta modification by any speoial pro-visions in a right-of-way act. LOGGING ON RESERVATIONS. Lac du Flambeau and Bad River reservations, is.-AS previously reported, J. H. Oushway & Go. were given authority by the President on 8eptember 28,1892, to purchase the timber standing on the Indian allotments on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, and January 6,1894, Justus S. Stearns was given similar authority on the Bad River Reser-vation. In each case the original authority was subsequently extended by the President to cover new allotments. Since my last annual report the timber business on these two reservations has been satisfactorily I conducted and the work of logging has progressed with good results to the Indians, who, all reports show, are being honestly dealt with by the I contractors and are receiving fullvalue and high prices for their timber. I Lac Court d'oreilles Reservation, Wis.-January 4, 1896, lists of new allotments to Indians on this reservation were approved. January 15, 1896, authority was granted for Mr. Turrish to purchase timber from the allottees. As previously stated, there was very little timber on this reservation to be logged, and the close of the last logging season about completed the business. Indeed, Lientenant Mercer, the acting agent, reported that had not the new allotments referred to been approved and authority been given to purchase the timber thereon there would have beeu no logging on the reservation after January of this year. Mr.Turrish has conducted his logging there in an entirely satisfactory manner, and while, from the nature of the situation, the relief which it afforded the Indians will be but temporary, it has been for most of them their way of escape from actual starvation. White Earth and Red Lake reservations, Win.-September 14, 1895, the President granted authority for the Indians of the White Earth and (diminished) Red Lake reservations to cut and sell dead timber standing or fallen on those reservations, and prescribed regulations to govern their operations, under the act of Febmary 16,1891 (26 Stat. L., 673). In accordance with this authoriby, dead timber was sold by these Indians to the gross value of $51,935.30. This timber would, in the course of a year or two, have beeu a total loss to the Indians; but by its sale its value has been saved, ma.ny of the Indians have been given remunerative employment during the winter, and $5,193 (or 10 per cent of gross value of logs) has been added to the fund on the books of this office available for the relief of the old, sick, and other-wise indigent members of the bands belonging on these reservations. Menornonee Reservation, Wis.-October 14, 1896, the Department, on recommendation of this office, granted authority for the agent of the |