May 27, 1902
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 32, Part 1, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Seventh Congress during its first session in 1902. The following text is from Chapter 888 (32 Stat. 268).]
For payment to the Indians occupying the Mille Lac Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay said Indians for improvements made by them, or any of them, upon lands occupied by them on said Mille Lac Indian Reservation, said payment to be made upon investigation, examination, and appraisement by the Secretary of the Interior, upon condition of said Indians removing from said Mille Lac Reservation: Provided, That any Indian who has leased or purchased any Government subdivision of land within said Mille Lac Reservation from or through a person having title to said land from the Government of the United States shall not be required to move from said reservation, but shall be entitled to the benefits of said appropriation to all intents and purposes as though they had removed from said reservation: And provided further, That this appropriation shall be paid only after said Indians shall, by proper council proceedings, have accepted the provisions hereof and declared the manner in which they wish the money disbursed; and said Indians upon removing from said Mille Lac Reservation shall be permitted to take up their residence and obtain allotments in severalty either on the White Earth Reservation or on any of the ceded Indian reservations in the State of Minnesota on which allotments are made to Indians.
Approved, May 27, 1902.