Chapter 46. authorizing the sale of certain logs cut by the Indians of the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin
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CHAP. 46.— An Act authorizing the sale of certain logs cut by the Indians of the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin.Mar. 22, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Menomonee Reservation, Wisconsin. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be sold at public sale Sale of cut timber.to the highest bidder, for cash, after due public advertisement, and in such lots or quantities as he may deem judicious, all pine timber cut, upon the Menomonee Indian Reservation during the winter of eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, under the direction of the then United States Indian Agent, J.
C. Bridgman. Sec. 2.—Disposition of proceeds. That the proceeds arising from all sales of such timber shall be applied first to the payment of any and all indebtedness incurred for labor, supplies, and other expenses incident to the cutting and sale of said timber, and the surplus, if any, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and expended for their benefit under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Approved, March 22, 1882.