The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-01-31

leases executed Of lands for grazing,
camping or other purposes. No per-
nit shall be issued for longer term
than one year, except to members of
| the Red Lake band of Indians, and
no lease shall be executed for a
longer term than ten years. If q
| lease shall be Cancelled, or a renewal
refused, the secretary of the interior
may, in his discretion, pay to the
party dispossessed, from the proceeds
of the Red Lake Indian Forest, the
appraised value of the permanent
| improvements placed thereon by the
one dispossessed. The proceeds de-
rived from these lands shall be COW
cred into the treasury Of the United
States to the credit of the Red Lake
Indians, and may thereafter be ex-
pended by the secretary of the in
terror in payment of necessary ex-
penses of the forest, including the
purchase of improvements, and in
such other manner as said secretary
shall consider most advantageous and
beneficial to the Red Lake Indians.
Permits Issued.
Sec, 4. That the secretary of the
interior is hereby authorized to issue
a permit to any head of a family or
adult unmarried member of the Red
Lake band of Indians emitting him
or she to the exclusive use for a term
of ten years of any tract of land, not
exceeding twenty acres in area,
fronting on either Upper Red Lake
or Lower Red Lake, having shore
line of not more than fifty rods. Sim
liar permits may be issued by the
said secretary for legal subdivisions
which do not border upon either of
the said lakes with the same restric-
lions as to area. In the granting of
these permits preference shall be
given to Red Lake Indians who have
occupied such land for period of
not less than three years prior to the
passage of this act and each permit
shall be renewed so long as the per-
son or any member of his or her i'm
mediate family shall continue to re-
side thereon, unless in the opinion
Of the secretary the best interests Of
the Red Lake band of Indians de-
mand that such permit be not re-
newed; and when renewal is re-
fused the secretary shall cause an
appraisal to be made of any perman-
ent Improvement placed upon such
land by the permittee, or his imme-
diate family, and shall pay to him,
from the proceeds of the Red Lake
Indian Forest, the amount of such
mittee or his immediate family shall
fail to reside upon the shore line or
interior tract covered by his permit
for period of at least three months
in any year, the permit shall be
subject to cancellation by the Sec
rotary of the interior, and when a
permit is thus Cancelled the secre-
tary may pay the permittee the value
of his permanent improvements from
the proceeds of the Indian forest, if
in his Judgment the improvements
are Of any value to the Red Lake In
dams. If lands covered by a lapsed
or a Cancelled permit are assigned to
another applicant, such new per-
mittee shall be required to pay into
the Red Lake Indian Forest fund
the value which the improvements
thereon have at the time of the is
suance of such permit.
i Sec. 5. That every permit or
lease issued under authority of this
act to Indians or to other persons or
corporations shall reserve to the
secretary of the interior the right
to cross the land covered thereby
with logging roads or railroads, to
use the shore line, or to erect there
on and use such structures as shall
be necessary to the proper and econ
omical management of the Indian
Forest created by this act.
Sec. g. That all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent with the terms
of this act are hereby repealed.