The Tomahawk., 1919-10-30
THE KNu7SoN BILL.

Representative Knutson has in
troduced the following bill; III. K.
1924 to aid in winding up the
affairs of the Chippewa Indians of
M,nnesota, and which was referred
to the Committee on Indian Affairs
and ordered to be printed:
a BILL
Be it enacted BY the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That a commission
of three members, one of whom
shall be appointed by the President
of the United States, one by the
Secretary of the Interior. and one
by the President of the General
Council of the Chippewa Indians
of Minnesota, shall be appointed
within thirty days after the passage
of this Act. The members of SAIL
commission, so appointed, shall,
before entering upon the discharge
of their duties, take an oath to
support the Constitution of the
United States and to faithfully dis
charge the duties of their office.
Said commission shall select chair
man and the members shall each
receive compensation at the rate of
$40 per day, and their necessary
expenses, said salaries and all ex-
penses to be paid upon ltemized
accounts approved by said CON-
mission. In the performance of the
work herein authorized said COM
mission is given full power to en-
ploy all clerical and other help
necessary for the proper conduct
of the work, the power to compel
the attendance of all witnesses, the
production of all papers, to admin
ister oaths, and to obtain all facts
necessary to the proper perform
ance of it's duties. Said COMMISSION
shall Immediately proceed to add
to the existing rolls of the Chip
pewa Indians of Minnesota, except
the rolls of the Indians residing on
the Red Lake Reservation, the
name of any person lawfully en-
titled to an allotment of land under
the the agreements entered into
with said Indians pursuant to the
provisions of the Act approved
January IA, 1889 (Twenty-fifth
Statutes at Large, page 642), and
who had not heretofore been en-
rolled, and said commission shall
prepare q roll of the Chippewa In
dams residing on the Red Lake
Reservation and tnen in being, said
rolls to be completed within one
year from the date the commission
is organized. Upon the completion
of said rolls said commission shall
Immediately proceed and allot to
every person so enrolled and then
in being who had not heretofore
received an allotment, one hundred
and sixty acres of land, eighty acres
of which shall be chiefly valuable
for agriculture, to be selected by
the allottee, il an adult, and if a
minor by the father, mother, guard
ian, or administrator having charge
of his or her estate. preference be-
ing given in the order named, and
if the enrollee be incompetent or
absent said selection shall be made
by some suitable person akin to him
or her; that each person so entitled
to an allotment shall have the right,
when it is possible, to take his or
her allotment on land, the improve
ments on which belong to him or
her; that So far as practicable each
allotment shall be of contiguous
land. Selection of allotments shall
be made within sixty days after
such enrollee, or his or her repre-
sentative shall receive notice of his
or her right to select an allotment,
and should any such enrollee or his
or her representative fail or refuse
to make such selection within said
time then then the commission
shall proceed and arbitrarily make
an allotment of land in the name