25 U.S.C. § 197 — Disposition of dead timber on reservations in Minnesota

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The Secretary of the Interior may let Minnesota Indians sell or use dead timber from their reservations, allotted or not. Chippewa Indians with rights to proceeds from ceded lands can also remove dead timber there, but not sell it. This authority is set year by year, under the Secretary's rules. It cannot be granted if someone damaged the timber on purpose to sell it.

The Secretary of the Interior may, at his discretion and from year to year, under regulations he prescribes, authorize Indians living on any Indian reservation in Minnesota — whether the reservation has been allotted to individuals or is still unallotted — to fell, cut, remove, sell, or otherwise dispose of dead timber, standing or fallen, on that reservation or any part of it, solely for the benefit of those Indians. He may also, in the same way, authorize the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota who have an interest or right in the proceeds from sales of ceded Indian lands or the timber growing on them (where the United States still holds the underlying ownership) to fell, cut, remove, or otherwise dispose of the dead timber, standing or fallen, on that ceded land — but not by sale. But whenever there is reason to believe that, in either case, the dead timber was killed, burned, girdled, or otherwise injured on purpose in order to make it eligible for sale under this section, that authority cannot be granted.

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The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, from year to year, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the Indians residing on any Indian reservation in the State of Minnesota, whether the same has been allotted in severalty or is still unallotted, to fell, cut, remove, sell, or otherwise dispose of the dead timber, standing or fallen on such reservation or any part thereof, for the sole benefit of such Indians; and he may also in like manner authorize the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota who have any interest or right in the proceeds derived from the sales of ceded Indian lands or the timber growing thereon, whereof the fee is still in the United States, to fell, cut, remove, or dispose of the dead timber, otherwise than by sale, standing or fallen, on such ceded land. But whenever there is reason to believe that such dead timber in either case has been killed, burned, girdled, or otherwise injured for the purpose of securing its sale under this section, then in that case authority shall not be granted.

Source credit: (June 7, 1897, ch. 3, 30 Stat. 90.)

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1897Enacted · Act of June 7, 1897, ch. 3 · 30 Stat. 90

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