RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE AND REMOVAL OF PINE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, 1. The merchantable pine timber on the lands described in the accompanying descriptive lists of ceded Chippewa lands in the State of Minnesota will be offered for sale, under sealed bids under the fifth section of the act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 642), as amended and modified by the acts of June 27, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 400), May 23, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 268), and section 27 of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. L., 855, 862). (See copies herewith.) Said descriptive lists give the quantity of the pine timber reported by the examiners as having been found on each legal subdivision. Schedule A gives the estimate of timber within the Minnesota National Forest; only 90 per cent of the timber is to be sold. All of the timber described on Schedule B is to be sold. 2. All lands claimed by the State as swamp have been eliminated from the schedules, but the question as to what lands are swamp is still pending, and the State may assert a claim to such of the lands as were swamp and overflowed at the date of the act of March 12, 1860 (12 Stat. L., 3). In case any tract claimed as swamp is found. to be nonswamp, the purchaser of timber in the same section may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, include the timber thereon in his purchase. 3. In case of the relinquishment by any Indian of a tract within the limits of the Minnesota National Forest, as authorized by said act of May 23, 1908, and such tract is found to be classified as "pine," the purchaser of timber in the same section will be given the privilege of including the timber on such tract in his purchase, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. 4. Bids for the timber on these lands will be opened at the district 5. No bid will be received for a sum less than at the rate of $4 per 3 260125 7. Each bid shall be accompanied by cash or a certified check for 20 per cent of the amount of such bid, according to the value of the timber, to be ascertained by multiplying the amount of timber to be sold, which in Schedule A is only 90 per cent of the Government estimate, by the price bid per 1,000 feet, the deposit to be retained and at once credited as part payment of the purchase price for the timber included in such bid should the bid be accepted, but to be retained by the United States as a forfeit if the bid be accepted and the bond and agreement required by these rules and regulations be not furnished. In case cash accompanies the bid the receiver will deposit the same as a special fund in the nearest United States depository. 8. The register and receiver will number the bids consecutively as they are received, beginning with No. 1, noting on each bid the date and hour of its receipt. On opening the bids the register and receiver will indorse on the inclosures the number of the bid and the name of the bidder. They will make a list of the bids and will without delay forward the list, bids, and accompanying checks or certificates of deposit to the General Land Office. On the same day that they forward said bids, checks, etc., the register and receiver will send to each bidder at the sale two blank bonds and agreements and a copy of the rules and regulations for the selling and removal of the pine timber from the lands. 9. Within 10 days from receipt of notice by telegraph that his bid has been accepted by the Secretary of the Interior each successful bidder will be required to enter into and file an agreement and bond on forms approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the penalty of the bond to be of an amount which shall be 50 per cent of the value of the timber, ascertained as provided in rule 7, embraced in his accepted bid and purchase. He may submit a separate agreement and bond for each bid, or one agreement and bond for all the timber purchased by him, described in either Schedule A or Schedule B, as the case may be, the agreement and bond for the timber in each schedule to be separate, the agreement and bond to sufficiently identify and describe all the land. The bond shall be conditioned for the payment for said timber and for the faithful performance of said agreement, and for the observance of these regulations. The agreement and bond may be acknowledged by the purchaser of the timber, and the bond by sureties, before any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds in the State or Territory where executed, and the sufficiency of individual sureties must be certified by the United State judge or district attorney of the district where such sureties reside. In case of individual sureties, the parties will be required to justify in accordance with the special rules in regard thereto provided by the department. 10. Upon the filing in their office of said agreement and bond, duly executed, the register and receiver will immediately forward them to the General Land Office for transmission to the Secretary of the Interior. The right is reserved to reject any bond submitted. 11. Written notice of intention to begin removal of timber must be given by the purchaser to the superintendent of logging, whose address is Cass Lake, Minn., at least 10 days in advance. 12. The superintendent of logging and his assistants, appointed under the said act of January 14, 1889, as amended by said act of June 27, 1902, shall supervise the cutting, scaling, and removal of the timber sold under the provisions of said act. It shall be their duty |