612 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
The sections of the bill providing for these licenses are perhaps the 
most important part of the proposed legislation, and as they are 
novel in their form are here given in full: 
The disposal of timber for domestic purposes shall be made by means of licenses, 
as follows, namely: 
(1) A prospector’s license shall be granted to any applicant by the local (dis- 
trict) inspector upon the payment of two dollars. Such license shall confer the 
right to prospect for minerals upon land falling under the provisions of this act, and 
also the right to cut without waste and under the general-regulations of the forestry 
board and the supervision of the rangers, timber for the first construction of shan- 
ties, prospecting shafts, and other necessary structures from the territories nearest 
to the prospector’s claim or claims. Such license shali be good only for the district 
in which it is taken out, and shall end at the expiration of one year from the time 
of its issue, or whenever, sooner than that, the claim is perfected or the prospecting 
is abandoned. 
(2) A settler’s license shall be granted to any bona-fide settler having no timber on 
his claim by the local (district) inspector upon the payment of two dollars. Such 
license shail confer the right, for one year, to cut for the licensee’s own use only 
and for domestic purposes timber, fuel, and fence material, without waste and under 
the general regulations of the forestry board, upon an area of five acres which the 
licensee may designate near his settlement. 
(3) A timber license shall be granted to any bona-fide settler or mine operator or 
manufacturer, for the purpose of allowing him to supply himself or others with 
timber, fence material, or fuel, upon the payment of a license fee of five dollarsand 
the further payment before beginning to cut any timber of a sum equal to one dol- 
lar for each and every acre embraced in his license, and, in addition, a stumpage of 
not less than one cent per stump actual count, before the removal of the timber. 
Such license shall be granted for one year and shall confer the right to cut the tim- 
ber on not less than forty nor more than eighty acres, the same to be selected by 
the applicant and the selection to be approved by the local officer. 
That all licenses provided for as heretofore stated shall be in printed forms, and 
shall be issued, upon an order from the district inspector, by the receivers of public 
money upon the payment of the license fee. Licenses shall be numbered in suc- 
cession, as applications for them are made, and priority of application shall deter- 
mine the order in which they are granted. The district inspector shall receive ap- 
plications for license on certain days of each week, to be published and made known 
by them. They shall keep open books, in which shall be recorded in proper order 
applications for license and tue action taken upon them, with the names and resi- 
dence or post-office address of the applicants. ‘The inspector shall also notify the 
rangers of each license granted in their ranges, and the rangers shall be required to aid 
licensees in locating their claims. No unused ‘‘settler’s license” or “‘ timber license” 
shall be renewed unless good cause is shown for its nct having been previously ysed, 
nor shall] any license be granted to any person who in the use of a previous license 
has not complied with the regulations of the forestry board. No license of any 
kind shall be transferred from one company to another and continue to be valid 
unless the transfer of the same is authorized by the forestry board. 
hat the timber on lands of the first class which is not needed for mining or 
agricultural development in the neignborhcod shail be disposed of to lumbermen 
or others, as it may be applied for under a ‘* lumberman’s license” in quantities not 
less in amount than that standing or being on one section nor more than that being 
on twenty-five contiguous sections. Such license shall be granted, wpon the payment 
of a fee of twenty-five dollars, by the Commissioner of Forests with the approval of 
the Secretary of the Interior, under the conditions stipulated in the act, and shall 
confer the right to cut timber and sell the same from as many sections or acres as 
have been located and paid for. The licensee shall also pay one dollar per acre for 
the whole number of acres covered by his license befere le may begin operations 
and not later than six months after the granting of said license. And a further 
charge of not less than one cent per cubic foot shall be paid by the licensee after the 
timber has been cut and before the same ismoved. Such li-ense shal: be good for 
two years, and in all eases in which not more than ten sectious of timber are em- 
braced in the license it shall not be renewed more than once for a longer term than 
two years. Where the license embraces more than ten sections of timber the same 
rule shall apply in regard to its renewal as in the case of licenses for a less amount 
of timber, except that for every five sections above ten embraced in the license there 
may be a renewal of the license for one additional year. No licensee shall be au- 
thorized to apply for or take outa second ‘* lamberman’s license” until he shall have 
cut and disposed of three-fourths cf the timber to which he is entitled by the hcense 
previously given. 
