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Show REPORT OF THE OOMMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFBAIRS. 69 entered under the provisions of the act of January 14,1889 (25 Stats., 642), and that the operations on the ceded lands be also under the supervision and management of Captain Mercer. This authority was granted December 21, 1900, and the rules and regulations prescribed for the government of the operations to be conducted on tne White Earth and Red Lake diminished reservations were made applicable to the operations to be conducted on the ceded lands. They are published in full in this report on page 636. Under these authorities twenty-four contracts were entered into at various dates by Captain Mercer with different parties, who agreed to purchase the logs cut from the diminished reservations and. the ceded lands. These contracts were all approved by this oace. Captain Mercer'r~r eport of J u n 2~9 ,1901, shows as follows: 5,783,120 feet of logs was cut on the Red Lake diminished reservation, which was sold for $33,731.35, and the total expense of these logging opera-tions amounted to $21,781.83, leaving a balance of $11.949.52 to be deposited to the credit of the "proper Indians." On the White Earth diminished reservation there was cut 17,352,223 feet of logs, which was sold for $103,700.24, and the total cost of the logging (including $3,212.19 paid to the allottees for the timber cut from their lands and $1,000 held for the purpose of paying certain expenses expected to be thereafter incurred) amounted to $75,803.41, leaving a balance of $27,896.83, albo to be deposited to the credit of the "proper Indians." On the ceded lands 36,390,914 feet was cut, which was sold for $227,328.04, and the cost of logging operations (including $8,242.51 that was paid to Indian allottee& for timber cut from their allotments) amounted to $139,987.77, leaving a balance of $87,340.27 tobe depos-ited to the credit of "the proper Indians." At the date of this report the logging operations for the season of 1900-1901 had not been finally closed. Porter-SeeZye co?~trouersy.-October 28, 1898, Charlefl E. Seelye, as attorney in fact for William Douglsss, entered into a contract with George F. Porter by the terms of which Douglass agreed to sell, cut, haul, deliver, and bank at places agreed upon, during the logging sea-son of 1898-99, about 500,000 feet of pine saw logs, the same to becnt from dead timber standing or fallen from sects. 10, 14, and 15, T. 147 K., R. 27 E., of the White Earth Reservation. This contract was confirmed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office Januaiy 14, 1899, except as to section 10, which was excluded. November 5,1899, Seelye, ab attorney in fact for Maggie A. Seelye, entered into a contmct with Porter agreeing to sell to him about 2,000,000 feet pine saw logs to he cut from sec. 97, T. 147 N., R. 27 W. and secs. 1, 2, 12, 13, and 24, T. 147 N., B. 28 W. This contract was |