St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-04
Matters Pertaining to the Red
Lake and White Earth
Reservations.
The Agreement Suits Both
Senator Sabin and Knute
Nelson.
Manner Of Disposing Of the
Pine Lands Set
Forth.
The Essential Changes From
the Bill as Originally
Drafted.
Special TO the Globe

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Senator Sabin
has at last secured an agreement with
the senate subcommittee which is both
satisfactory and gratifying to Mr.. Mel
son on the Red Lake and
White Earth reservation matters.
The provisions of the bill have here
tofore been reported, the essential
changes now being incorporated, being
the manner of disposing of the pine
lands which is arranged for appraisal
by commissioners to be appointed by
the secretary of the interior, and the
land sold in forty acre tracts at public
auction, at the CrOOkston land Office, to
the highest bidder, provision being
made for printed estimates to be
FURNISHED ANY PARTIES
desiring the same, by application to the
local land Office. All agricultural lands
are subject to homestead or pre-emp-
ton only, and not for sale to any but
actual settlers, after five years of resi-
dence. 1t is provided by the sec
ton that as soon as the ceSSion
and REIMBURSEMENT of said Indian
title has been obtained and approved,
as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the
commissioner OF the general land office
to cause the lands to be ceded to the
United States to be surveyed in the
manner provided by law for the
SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS,
and as soon as practicable thereafter
such survey has been made, and the re-
port filed, notes and plates thereof, filed
III the general land office, and duly ap-
proved by the commissioners thereof,
the said secretary of the interior,
upon notice of the completion
of such surveys, shall appoint suf-
ficient number of competent and expert
enced examiners in order that the work
may be done within reasonable time,
who shall go upon said lands and per-
SOnally make careful, complete and
thorough examination of the same by
forty-acre lots
FOR THE PURPOSE
of ascertaining on which lots or tracts
there is standing or growing pine tim
Der, which tracts for the purposes of
this act are termed ''pine landS.' The
minutes of such examinations to be at
the time entered in books provided for
that purpose, showing with particular
ity the amount and quantity
of all pine timber standing
or growing thereon. the amount of such
pine timber to be estimated by feet in
the manner used usually in estimating
such timber, which estimates and re-
ports of all such examinations shall be
filed with the commissioner of the gen
eral land office as part of
THE PERMANENT RECORDS.
thereof, and thereupon that officer shall
cause to be made list of all such pine
lands. describing each forty-acre
lot or fraction thereof, separately, and
opposite each such description he
shall place the actual cash value
OF the same. according to his
best Judgment and information;
but such valuation shall not be at less
than So per thousand feet, and there
upon such lists of lands so approved
shall be transmitted to the secretary OF
the interior for approval, modification
or rejection as he may
DEEM IT PROPER.
IL the appraiSals are rejected as a
whole, then the secretary of the interior
shall substitute a new appraisal, and
the same or original list as approved or
modified shall be filed with the commits
sioner of the general land office as the
appraisal of said lands and as const-
tutlng the minimum price for which
said lands may be sold as hereinafter
provided. Duplicate lists of said lands
as appraised, together with copies of the
field notes, surveys and minutes of ex-
aminatiOns, shall be filed and kept i'm
the office of the register of the land
office of the district within which said
lands may be situated, and
COPIES OF SAID LISTS
with the appraisalS shall be furnished to
any person desiring the same, upon ap-
plication to the commissioners of the
general land Office. or to the register of
said local land office. The compensa-
ton of the examiners so provided for in
this section shall be fixed by
the secretary of the interior,
but in no event shall exceed the sum of
six dollars per day for each person. 1t
is also provided that such cesSion and
REIMBURSEMENT shall be deemed Suffi-
cient as to each of said several reSerya-
tons, except as to the
RED LAKE RESERVATION,
If made and aSSented to by the two
thirds OF the male adults of the band or
tribe of Indians occupying and belong
ing to such reservation; and as
to the Red Lake reservation
said REIMBURSEMENT shall be deemed
sufficient ii made and assented
to by two-thirdS of the male adults of
all the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.
Sec. 6. srhat when any of the agricult-
ural lands at said reservation not al
lotted under this act have been sur
veyed, the secretary of the interior
shall give
THIRTY DAYS NOTICE
thereof, though at least one newspaper
published in St. Paul, CrOokstOn and
Duluth. in the state of Minnesota, and at
the expiration of said thirty days, the
said agricultural lands, SO surveyed,
United States to actual set
tiers only under the provisions
of the homestead laws, provided
that each settler under and in accord
ance with the provisions of said home
stead laws shall pay to the United States
for the land SO taken by HIM the sum of
SIPS for each and every acre in five
EQUAL ANNUAL PAYMENTS,
and shall be entitled to patent there
fore only at the expiration of five years
from the date OF entry, according to said
homestead laws. and after the full pay
nent of said Sl.25 per acre therefor and
due proof of occupany for said period of
five years, and any conveyance
of, said lands so taken as
homestead or any contract touching the
same. prior to the date of final entry.
shall he null and void: provided, that
any person VINO has not heretofore had
the benefit of the homestead or pre-emp-
ton law. and has failed from any cause
to perfect the title to a contract of land
heretofore entered by him under either
OF said laws, may make second home
stead entry under the provisions of this