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time of sale; (2) cut-over or culled lands; (3) brush or burned land not bearing mer- 

 chantable timber in quantity, but covered with a growth of brush which is useful for 

 watershed protection, and burned land whether covered with young timber growth or 

 not; (4) abandoned farm land, whether remaining cleared or partially covered by timber 

 growth. Good agricultural lands will not be considered. 



Where valuable mineral deposits are known to exist, the right to remove such 

 deposits may be reserved to the owner, under conditions to be agreed upon, such condi- 

 tions to be incorporated in the written instrument of conveyance. 



Lands lying within the designated areas can not be recommended for purchase unless 

 examination by the United States Geological Survey shows that their control will promote 

 or protect the navigation of streams on whose watersheds they lie. 



Lands proposed at exorbitant prices will not be considered. The holding of land at 

 too high a price in any of the areas will prevent the Government from undertaking 

 purchases within it. 



No limitation is put upon the size of tracts to be proposed for sale. Proposals will 

 be received for small as well as for large tracts within the areas designated, but small 

 tracts can only be examined when they lie adjacent to or near large tracts which are 

 being examined or where the aggregate of all tracts offered for sale is sufficient to justify 

 an examination. 



The right of any landowner to deal through an agent is, of course, recognized. The 

 placing of lands in agents' hands, however, is unnecessary, as the owners themselves may 

 deal direct with the Government. 



The lands purchased by the Government under this law are to be included in 

 national forests. Such forests will in no way interfere with hunting and fishing within 

 the areas. The laws of the States in which the forests are located will apply as at 

 present and the forests will be open to anyone and everyone. The use of the forests 

 for all reasonable purposes, including recreation, will be encouraged. 



In general the procedure in making purchases will be as follows: 



(1) The filing of proposal for sale of land by the owner or owners. 



(2) Examination of lands. This examination will usually include a careful estimate 

 of whatever timber is standing upon the tract, an estimate of the value of the tract as 

 a whole for the production of timber, and the determination of its importance in regu- 

 lating the flow of navigable streams. 



(3) Approval of lands for purchase by the National Forest Reservation Commission 

 and the fixing of the purchase price or prices. Approval for purchase is given only after 

 recommendation has been made by the Secretary of Agriculture on the basis of the field 

 examinations. 



(4) Final negotiations with the owner or owners of land as to terms of sale. 



(5) Examination of title. 



(6) Actual conveyance of the title of the land by the owner to the Government and 

 payment therefor by the Government to the owner. 



AREAS WITHIN WHICH PROPOSALS FOR SALE ARE INVITED. 



The areas roughly designated in the following descriptions have been selected as 

 those within which proposals will first be invited. Lands chiefly valuable for agriculture 

 are not desired, and where such lands occur within the areas described they will not be 

 recommended for purchase, unless such lands occur in such small scattered areas that 

 their exclusion would be impracticable. 



White Mountain Area, New Hampshire and Maine. 



Lands on the Carter-Moriah Range of mountains in the townships of Shelburne and 

 Gorham, on the Presidential Range in the townships of Gorham and Randolph, on Cherry 

 Mountain and the Dartmouth Range in the township of Carroll, and lands in the Low 

 and Burbank Grant, Thompson and Meserve Purchase, Bean Purchase, Martin Location, 

 Green Grant, Pinkham Grant, Bean Grant, Cutts Grant, Sargent Purchase, and Hadley 

 Purchase, in the county of Coos in the State of New Hampshire; lands on the Franconia 

 Range of Mountains, the Little River Mountains and the Rosebrook Mountains in the 

 township of Bethlehem, the Franconia Range of Mountains in the townships of Franconia 

 and Easton, on Mount Moosilauke, Mount Kineo and Mount Carr, in the township of 

 Warren, on Mount Carr in the townships of Wentworth and Rumney, and Black Hill and 

 Mount Kineo in the township of Ellsworth; lands above an altitude of 1,000 feet in the 

 township of Woodstock; lands east of the Pemigewasset River in the township of Thorn- 

 ton; and lands in the townships of Benton, Waterville, Lincoln, and Livermore in the 

 county of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire; lands above an elevation of 1.000 

 feet in the townships of Chatham, Jackson, Bartlett, and Albany, and on the Sandwich 

 Range of Mountains in the township of Sandwich in the county of Carroll in the State 

 of New Hampshire; and lands in Batchelders Grant in the county of Oxford in the 

 State of Maine. 



