The Tomahawk., 1903-04-09
The RED LAKE ACT.

Iss, u IitdU U1lSf VI Ulic Iliuc1i iOi
Iis hereby lorizees osen, subject to
the homestead laws of the United
States, to the highest bidder at public
auctioil, in tracts not to exceed one
hundred and sixty acres to each In
dividual. all that parts of the Red
Lake Indian Reservation in the State
Of Minnesota lying. westerly OF the
Irange line between range thirty-eight
land thirtyshine west Of the fifth prin-
lcipal meridian, approximating two
Hundred and ffty-six thousand acres
And the land shall be..sold for not less
3Jhan four dollars per acre and shall be
lsold upon the following terms: One
/ fifth of the price bid therefor to be
paid at the time the bid is made, and
the..balance OF the purchase price of
said land to be paid in five equal an
/ nnal installments, payments to be
tlnade to the receiver Of the United
States land office for the district in
1 which said land may be situated.
Land in case any purchaser fails to
make such annual payment when due,
or Witfin sixty days thereafter, ali
! rights in and to the land covered. by
his or her purchase shall at once cease
and any payments made shall thereup-
on be forfeited, and the SECRETARY of
the Interior shall thereupon declare
such forfeited by reoffering such land
for sale. And no title to said land
shall inure to the purchaser, nor any
patent issued to the purchaser, until
| the purchaser Or his or her heirs shall
have resided upon, improved, and cul-
tivated said land for the full term of
| five years, without any communication
of time, and shall have in oil respects
complied with the terms and provision
of the homestead, laws of the United
States: Provided, That such purchaser
shall make his final proof conformable
to the homestead laws withinsix years
from The date of the sale; that aliens
who have declared their intention to
become citizens Of the United States
may become purchasers under this
Act, but Before making final proof
and acquiring title must take out their
full naturalization papers: Provided
That in consideration of the benefits
to be derived by said Indians from the
acceptance of this agreement they ex-
pressly grant to the State of Mime
sofa for school purposes sections six
teen and thirty-six of each township.
| "All of the Indians residing upon
the tract above described shall remove
therefrom to the diminished Red Lake
Reservation within six months after
the ratification of the Act: and there
is hereby appropriated from the pro-
ceeds of said sale the sum of twenty
Thousand dollars or SO much thereof
as may be necessary, to be paid to those
thus removing in proportion to their
respective improvements, which pay
ments to said Red Lake Indians shall
be in full of all improvements which
they will abandon, and also for the
removal within the diminishd reserva-
tion of their dead from where they are
now buried on the tract above describ-
ed. The proceeds of said lands, as re-
allied from time to time, shall be paid
into the United States Treasury to
the credit of the Indians belonging on
said Red Lake Reservation.
Il "Of the amount realized from the
sale of said lands the sum Of three
hundred thousand dollars shall be paid
in cash, per capita, share and share a.
like, to each man, woman, and child
belonging on said Red Lake Indian
; Reservation within ninety days after
the sale herein provided for and the
receipt by the United States of sale
sum from said sales, and the remain
der of the proceeds of the sale OF sale
lands shall be paid in cash, per capits
in fifteen annual installments, tht