[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC197]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF INDIANS
Sec. 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
