Chapter 418. to authorize the sale of timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menomonee tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin
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CHAP. 418.— An Act to authorize the sale of timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menomonee tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin.June 12, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sale of timber from Menomonee Indian Reservation, Wis.Agent to employ Indian loggers.Compensation. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered to authorize the agent of the Menomonee tribe of Indians in Wisconsin to employ at a reasonable compensation said Indians to cut all or any portion of the timber on the lands reserved for the use of said Indians in that State into logs and haul the same to the banks of the rivers; and said logs shall be scaled and advertised, and after due notice all or any part thereof Sale, etc., of logs.sold to the highest bidder or bidders for cash, in such manner and at such time and place as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; no sale to be valid until approved by said Secretary, In case said logs can not be sold where landed on the river at what the Secretary of the Interior considers a reasonable price, he shall cause said logs to be run down the river to market, to be sold in the Indian employment.manner he deems for the best interest of the Indians, employing Indians at all times when in his opinion practicable and for the benefit of the Indians in doing such work; and the Secretary of the Appointment of superintendent.Compensation.Appointment of assistant superintendent.Compensation.Interior may appoint a competent man to superintend these Indians while logging, and fixing the rate of his compensation.
The Secretary shall appoint an assistant superintendent, who shall be a practical logger and shall have full charge and direction of such logging operations under the superintendent, and who shall receive such compensation as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine: *Proviso*.Limitation.*Provided*, That not exceeding twenty millions of feet of timber shall be logged and sold in any one year. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 418, 419. 1890.147 Sec. 2. That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so muchAppropriation. thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the expense of cutting, banking, scaling, running,Expenses of cutting saie etc. advertising, and sale thereof: also, pay of superintendent and assistant superintendent; which expenses and pay shall be reimbursed toReimbursement from first proceeds of sale.*Proviso*.Future annual advances for logging authorized. the Treasury of the United States from the first proceeds of the sale of timber as hereinbefore provided:. *And provided*, That after the first years logging, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance a like amount as provided for in this bill, on the order of the Secretary of the Interior, out of any money in the Treasury belonging to said Indians for the purpose of enabling them to carry on logging as provided in this act.
Sec. 3. That from the net proceeds of sales of said MenomoneeDisposal and use-of net proceeds of sales, etc., for benefit of Menomonees. logs shall be deducted one-fifth part, which shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Menomonee Indians in Wisconsin, to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of said Indians, and the residue of said proceeds shall be funded in the United States Treasury, interest on which shall be allowed said tribe annually at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid to the tribe per capita, or expended for their benefit under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 4. That this act shall be and remain inoperative until full andTribal sanction to be first evidenced. satisfactory evidence shall have been placed on the files of the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the sales of timber and the manner of disposing of the proceeds of same herein authorized have the sanction of the tribe, evidenced by orders of agreement taken in full council; and if the provisions of this act shall not be accepted as aforesaid no further cutting of timber shall be permittedOtherwise, further Indian logging prohibited. by said Indians upon said reservation until otherwise provided.
Approved, June 12, 1890.