25 U.S.C. § 197 : US Code - Section 197: Disposition of dead timber on reservations in Minnesota

Search 25 U.S.C. § 197 : US Code - Section 197: Disposition of dead timber on reservations in Minnesota

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.