The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1904-01-15
RED LAKE BILL.
Introduced BY Congressman Stevenson.

Be it ENACTED by the Senate and
House Of Representatives OF the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled, that the Secretary
of the Interior is hereby authorlz-
ed to sell, subject to the home
stead laws Of the United States, to
the highest bidder, at public auc-
ton, in tracts not to exceed one
hudred and sixty acres to each
individual, all that part Of Red
Lake Reservation in the state OF
Minnesota, approximating two
hundred and fifty-six thousand
acres. And the said land shall be
sold for not less than four dollars
per acre, and shall be sold upon
the following terms: One fifth OF
the price bid therefor to be made
at the time the bid is made and
the balance of the purchase price
Of said land to be paid in five equal
annual installments due in one,
two, three, four and five years from
date of sale, respectively, payment
to be made to the receiver OF the
United State land Office for the
district in which said land may be
situated. And in case any pur-
chaser fails to make such annual
payments promptly when due, or
within sixty days thereafter, all
rights in and to the land covered
by his or her purchase shall at once
cease, and any payments made
shall thereupon be forfeited, and
the Secretary of the Interior shall
thereupon declare such forfeiture
by reohering said land for sale.
And no patent shall issue to the
purchaser until the purchaser shall
have paid the purchase price and
in all respects complied with the
terms and provisions OF the home
stead laws of the United States:
Provided, t such purchaser
shall make his final proof COM
formable to the homestead laws
within six years from the date OF
sale: that aliens who have declared
their intention to become citizens
of the United States may become
purchasers under this new act, but
before making final proof and ac-
curing title must take out their
full naturalization papers; and that
persons who may have heretofore
exhausted their rights under the
homestead law may become pur-
chasers under this act; Provided,
that after such auction sale shall
be closed the lands remaining I'M
sold shall be subject to sale and
entry at the price of four dollars
per acre by qualified purchasers
subject to the same terms and con-
ditions as lands sold at said auc-
ton sale: Provided further, That
all lands above described which
shall remain unsold at the expira-
ton of seven years from the dated
of the first sale hereunder shall be
offered for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder for case at
not less than four dollars per acre,
and lands remaining unsold after
such sale shall be subject to pri-
vate entry and sale at said price
without any conditions whatever,
except the payment of the pur-
chase price.
All the Indians residing upon
the tract above described shall re-
move therefrom to the diminished
reservation within six months after
the ratification of this act: and
there is hereby appropriated from
proceeds 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
Improvement which they WI i
abandon, and also for the removal
to the diminished reservation of
their dead from where they are
now buried on the tract above des-