60 NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL LAWS. 



* * * Such timber before being sold shall be markc<l and desig- 

 Cuttingand re- nated, and shall be cut and removed under the supervision of some 

 person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior not 

 interested in the purchase or removal of such timber nor in the employ- 

 ment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make report in 

 writing * * * of his doings in the premises. 



Free use of tim- The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to be 

 tf> r '- et tc' by S6t " proscribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reserva- 

 tions, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and pros- 

 pectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, pr6spect- 

 ing, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such persons i'-. >r 

 such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or Territory, 

 respectively, where such reservations may be located. 1 



Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1256). 



Forest products [1270] And the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, 



from stateorTer- permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the 



ritory. " " national forests of the United States, except the Black Hills National 



Forest in South Dakota, 2 to be exported from the State, Territory, or 



the district of Alaska, in which said forests are respectively situated : 



Restrictions as Provided, That the exportation of dead and insect-infected timber only 



Nation^ Forest from **& Black Hills Na ! ional Forest shall be allowed until such time 



as the Forester shall certify that the ravages of the destructive insects 



in said forest are practically checked, but in no case after July first, 



nineteen hundred and eight. 



This proviso was repeated in the agricultural appropriation acts of 

 May 23, 1908, March 4, 1909, May 26, 1910, and March 4, 1911, except 

 that the time limit fixed in the last line was extended, first to July 1, 

 1910, and then to July 1, 1912. The old Black Hills National Forest 

 having been divided into the Black Hills and Harney National Forests, 

 the agricultural appropriation act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 269) 

 applies this provision to both, and further extends the time limit to 

 July 1, 1914. 



Agricultural appropriation act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 669). 



Timber sales in [684] Hereafter sales of timber on forest reserves in the State of 

 California shall in every respect conform to the law governing such 

 sales in other States, as set forth in the act of June sixth, nineteen hun- 

 dred (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page six hundred and sixty-one). 



Minnesota Na- NOTE. For timber sale provisions relating especially to the Minne- 

 tional Forest. ^ National Forest ^ e sec . 2 o f the act of May 2 3, 1908, 35 Stat. , 268). 



Agricultural appropriation act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 269). 



Sales to settlers That the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations 

 ^J fi at as he shall establish, is hereby authorized and directed to sell at actual 



cost, to homestead settlers and farmers, for their domestic use, the 

 mature, dead and down timber in national forests, but it is not the 

 intent of this provision to restrict the authority of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to permit the free use of timber as provided in the Act of 

 June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven. 



The act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88) authorizing the citizens of 

 Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, 

 Idaho, and Montana and "all other mineral districts of the United 

 States" to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and 

 domestic purposes, is printed on page 64, post, under "Trespass." 



Forest transfer act of February, 1905 (33 Stat., 628). 



Fulp wood and SEC. 2. That pulp wood or wood pulp manufactured from timber in 

 bTexported from the district of Alaska may be exported therefrom. 

 Alaska. 



i Modified by agricultural appropriation act of Mar. 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1270), printed 

 next following. 



* This does not prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from causing tree seeds to be 

 collected in the Black Hills Nationa Forest for the use of the Forest Service in seeding 

 and planting in other States. The prohibition does not apply to governmental uses. 

 (1 Sol. Op., 424.) 



