An Act relating to the management of the Red Lake Indian Forest and sawmill
PL 84-956 (S.3787), enacted 08/03/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 956-AUG. 3, 1956 
[70 STAT. 
dependent; and if one was, or both were, partly dependent, 
a proportionate amount in the discretion of the Secretary of 
Labor; 
"(2) no payments may be made under clause (F) of that sec-
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Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare whenever a claim 
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or not the member concerned was fully or currently insured under 
title I I of the Social Security Act at the time of his death." 
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Employees' Compensation Act as it was in effect before the enactment 
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Approved August 3, 1956. 
Public Law 956 
CHAPTER 927 
August 3, 1956 
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ACT 
[S. 3787] 
Relating to the management of the Red Lake Indian Forest and sawmill. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Fore8t^*''* Indian JJrdted /States of America in Congress assembled, That the seven-
teenth paragraph of section 9 of the Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 
123,137) is hereoy amended to read as follows: 
"The Red Lake Indian Forest shall be administered by the Secre-
tary of the Interior in accordance with principles of scientific forestry 
that will encourage the production of successive timber crops for 
the benefit of the Indians of the Red Lake Band, and he is hereby 
authorized (a) to harvest, sell, and manufacture such marketable 
timber from any tribal lands within the Red Lake Indian Reservation 
as he may deem to be advisable and, if the timber is the growth of 
Red Lake Indian Forest, in keeping with the foregoing principles, 
(b) to establish nurseries and otherwise provide for the reforestation 
of said lands, (c) to construct and operate sawmills and other fa-
cilities for the manufacture into marketable products of the timber 
harvested from said lands, (d) to purchase, harvest, and manufacture 
such additional timber standing on or severed from any other lands, 
including lands outside the reservation, as in his opinion may con-
tribute to the profitable operation of such sawmills and other facilities 
as a tribal enterprise, subject to such limitations on expenditures as 
may be prescribed in annual appropriations acts, and (e) to employ, 
with the consent of the tribal council, such persons and use such means 
as he may find necessary to carry out the purposes of the foregoing 
provisions. Any proceeds derived from sales of timber or timber 
products under this paragraph may be expended in payment of the 
expenses of any of the activities authorized oy this paragraph, includ-
ing construction expenses." 
SEC. 2. The fourth paragraph of section 8 of the Act of June 30,1919 
(41 Stat. 3, 14) is hereby amended by striking out the proviso. 
Approved August 3, 1956.