February 11, 1901
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 31, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Sixth Congress during its second session in 1901. The following text is from Chapter 350 (31 Stat. 766).]
CHAP. 350. — An Act Providing for allotments of lands in severalty to the Indians of the La Pointe or Bad River Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That with the consent of the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, located on the Bad River Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, to be obtained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, the President may allot to each Indian now living and residing on said reservation and entitled to so reside, and who has not heretofore received an allotment, not exceeding eighty acres of land, such allotments to be subject in all respects, except as to the age and condition of the allottee, to the provisions of the third article of the treaty with the Chippewas of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, concluded September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Approved, February 11, 1901.