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Show committee of the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin to dispwe of their dead and down timber in what is known as "the blown-down dis-trict," amounting to between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 feet. This is to be in addition to the amount of timber authorized to be cut annu-ally by the act of June 12,1890 (26 Stat. L., 146). Under rules to be prescribed by the Secretary, the timber is to be cut into logs and hauled to suitable places for sawing, and the Sec-retary is to contract with owners of portable sawmills to come upon the reservation and saw the logs into lumber at not to exceed $3.50 per thousand feet, board measure. Whi6e Earth Reservation.-No logging operations were conducted on the White Earth Diminished Reservation in Minnesota during the last logging zeasou, except to clean up the logs left in the woods the previous year. In the logging season of 1904-5, owing to an early break, 732,410 feet of Norway and 1,615,130 feet of white-pine logs, cut from the tribal lands, were left in the woods on skills. On Angost 1, 1905, the Department authorized the sale of these logs to the Nichols-Chisolm Lumber Company at $9.50 per thousand feet. The logs were removed and $22,301.66 was received for them. SALES O F INDIAN LANDS. INHERITED LANDS. The sales of inherited Indian lands which have been made under the act of May 27,1902 (32 Stat. L., 275), are as follows: I-P-I leoes. Acres I Proceeds. I am pleased to report that much progress has been made in cun-serving the funds derived from the sale of these lands. The position taken by the Ofice as detailed in my last annual report has aroused much opposition, and many persons have appealed to their Members of Congress with the hope of securing exemption from the enforce-ment of the rules, but the policy of the Office is so clearly right that there has been little difficulty in satisfying those who made inquiry on behalf of the remonstrants. Before the O5ce enforced its right to control these funds the In-dian beneficiaries derived very little benefit from them. It is now required that every claim against them be itemized and submitted to' the Office for approval. Some of th~c1aimant.s did not find this plan for the settlement of accounts to their liking, and many brought snits in garnishment against the banks in which the funds were deposited. 8elea to June 30,lW. ............................................. Beles for Bsed year 1W5.. ......................................... 881m for fiscal year 1906 ........................................... Total ........................................................ 1,286 973 643, 2,851 122.222.52 90 214.97 64:441.67 276,885.16 w,o5?,464.50 1,393,131.52 981.430.81 4,432,026.89 |