Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 1.djvu/578

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548 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 3578, 3579. 1906. scaled, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, the dead and down timber on the north one-half of township numbered twenty- nine, range numbered thirteen east; the north half of township numbered twenty-nine, range numbered fourteen east, and 1H the south half of township numbered thirty, range numbered thirteen east, on the Menominee Indian Reservation in lVisconsin, as herein provided, vox. 26, p. 146. such cutting of timber to be in addition to the amount authorized to be cut and sold annually by the Act of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and forty-six. _ _ 4 0¤¤¤r¤<=¤ The Secretary of the Interior shall make contmcts with a sufficient number of portable-mill owners to come u(pon the reservation and saw into lumber the logs so out from such dea and down timber, the compensation for such sawing to be fixed at a certain rate per thousand M¤i¤¤¤¤= vfi¢¢· feet, which amount shall not exceed the sum of three dollars and fifty cents r thousand feet board measure, both hard and soft wood in- I¤¤i¤¤ ¤¤b<>r· cludedlm That in so far as possible the labor employed in sawing said timber into lumber shall be secured from among the members o said tribe. V E¤r¤=¤¤¤¤· That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay out of the funds of the said Menominee tribe of Indians now on deplosit in the United States Treasury all necessary ex uses incurred in the cut~ ting and sawing of the timber, as providedw herein, which amount of mgney shall be reimbursed from the sale of the lumber as herein provided. " - ¤¤~¤<¤ 1¤¤¤¤>¤r· That said lumber shall be sold in such quantities as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to the highest and best bidder for cash after due advertisement inviting proposals and in such manner and at such time and place rmms as the Secretarv may direct, and from the proceeds of the sales of such lumber there shall be de sited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the said)0Menominee tribe of Indians the amount of money paid ont of said fund as the expense of cutting, sawing, piling, and grading said lumber; and there shall also be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit ofsaid Indians the one-lifth , part of the net roceeds of the sales of said lumber, to be used under the direction of) the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of said ntmesa. Indians, and the residue of said proceeds shall be de sited in the United States Treasury to the credit of‘said tribe and shalhbear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, to be paid to the said tribe per capita in semiannual cash payments. Approved, June 28, 1905. · T--__;--_ I June za, lll!. CHAP. 3579.-An Act Granting to the Ocean Shore Railway Company a right of _ [H· R·15U7“·l _ way for railroad purposes across Pigeon Point Light—House Reservation, in San Mateo [Pubns Nq_328_] County, California. Bc it enacted by the Senate and [Iowa of Ifepresentati/ces of the Uizibed Hglugewg States of Amer·z°ccz in Cbrigrws axxcnzb/ed. That a right of way be, and cigbwl Show Raw the same hereby ispgranted to the Ocean Shore Railway Company, a w,Kc0,,,p,n,gmu,ed a railroad corporation organized and existing under the laws of the

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the United States Light-House Reservation at Pigeon Point, in the county of San Mateo, State of California, forty feet in width, bein twenty feet in width on the northerly side and twenty feet in width on the southerly side of a center line described as follows, namely: D”°'*P*i°“ Beginning at a point on the southeasterly boundary line of a tract known as the "nine-acre lot." which shall be twenty-eight feet, more or less, from the northeasterly corner of said lot; thence westerly