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sale, but payment therefor may be required at such rate or rates as 

 may be fixed by the officer authorized, under the timber-sale regu- 

 lations, to sell the amount of timber involved, but in no case for less 

 than the minimum or for more than the maximum price established 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture, unless the authority of the Secretary 

 is secured. Wnen, however, a right of way or other special use is 

 granted within a National Forest in Alaska, the supervisor may, with- 

 out charge, allow the cutting of timber when this is necessary for the 

 proper enjoyment of the special use. 



FREE USE OF TIMBER AND STONE. 



Reg. S-19. The Secretary of Agriculture will determine for each 

 B whom anted ^^ y ear > upon data to be furnished by the Forester, 



the maximum amount of timber to be cut under free 

 use on each Forest, which amount shall form a part of the total maxi- 

 mum cut for the Forest. The Forester may grant free-use permits 

 for timber not exceeding $500 in value, and may delegate this author- 

 ity to subordinate officers. Permits for timber in excess of $100 in 

 value, except in cases of unusual emergency, will be granted only for 

 public purposes. Supervisors, unless otherwise authorized, may not 

 grant permits for material exceeding $100 in value. All Forest 

 officers whom the supervisor may designate are authorized to grant 

 free-use permits up to $20 in value. The Forester is also authorized 

 to grant free use of stone and to delegate this authority to subordinate 

 officers. All applications for free use of timber of value above $500 

 will be submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval. 

 Reg. S-20. Free-use permits may be granted to bona fide settlers, 

 TO whom anted mmers > residents, and prospectors for minerals, who 



may not reasonably be required to purchase, and who 

 have not on their own lands, or claims, or on lands controlled by 

 them, a sufficient or practically accessible supply of material suitable 

 for the purposes named in the law. They may also be granted to 

 school and road districts, churches, or noncommercial cooperative 

 organizations of settlers desiring to construct roads, ditches, reser- 

 voirs, or other similar improvements for mutual or public benefit. 

 Free use may be granted to other branches of the Federal Govern- 

 ment. Free use may be granted for consumption outside the State 

 in which the National Forest is located, except from the Black Hills 

 National Forest in South Dakota, on which Forest the free use of 

 dead and insect-infested timber only may, until the date upon which 

 the Forester shall certify that the insect ravages are practically 

 checked, but in no case after such date or dates as Congress has 

 specified, or shall hereafter specify, be granted for consumption out- 

 side the State. 



Reg. S-21. Trespassers will not be granted free use until full 

 TO whom refused set ement nas been made by them. Free use of 



material to be used in any business will be refused, 

 as, for example, to sawmill proprietors, owners of large establish- 

 ments or commercial enterprises, companies, and corporations. 

 Reg. S-22. No applicant will be given more than two free-use 



permits in one year, nor may the aggregate amount 



of material granted in the two permits exceed $20 

 in value, except in cases of great and unusual need, or in the case of 



