ACTS OF CONGRESS 353 



NATIONAL FORESTS. SECS. 623-625 



CHAPTER 46. 



RESERVATION OF NATIONAL FORESTS. 



SEC. 623. Reserves Known as National Forests. 



624. No Extension of Existing Reserves. 



625. Establishment of Forests. 



626. Amendment; Suspension of Proclamations. 



627. Scope of Act; Lands Not Subject to Reservation. 



628. Waters in Reserves. 



629. State Jurisdiction not Disturbed. 



630. Secretary of Agriculture to Administer Act. 



631. Lands Restored to Entry. 



632. Changes of Boundaries. 



633. Agricultural Lands to be Excluded. 



634. State to Share in Revenues. 



635. Same. 



SEC. 623. FOREST RESERVES AS NATIONAL FORESTS. 



Forest reserves shall be known hereafter as national forests. (Act 

 Mar. 4, '07; 34 Stat. L., p. 1269; Comp. Stat., '11 Supp., p. 647.) 



SEC. 624. AREA LIMITED. 



Hereafter no forest reserves shall be created, nor shall any additions 

 be made to one heretofore created within the limits of the states of 

 * * * Washington, except by act of Congress. (Act Aug. 24, '12; 37 

 Stat. L., p. 497.) 



This re-enacts the provisos to act of Mar. 4, '07 (34 Stat. L., p. 1271), and 

 act June 25, '10, (36 Stat. L., p. 847, sec. 2). 



SEC. 625. PRESIDENT MAY ESTABLISH FORESTS. 



The President of the United States may, from time to time, set 

 apart and reserve, in any state or territory having public land bearing 

 forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with 

 timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public 

 reservations, and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare 

 the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof. (Act 

 Mar. 3, '91; 26 Stat. L., p. 1103, sec. 24; 7 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 310; 2 

 Comp. Stat, p. 1537.) 



Withdrawal of lands, generally : sec. 598, ante. 



See preceding section. 



Cited: 168 U. S. 1 (42 L. Ed. 355) ; 220 U. S. 506; 225 U. S. 347; 105 

 Fed. 41 ; 118 Fed. 995 ; 122 Fed. 703 ; 128 Fed. 910 ; 131 Fed. 968 ; 146 Fed. 

 306 ; 160 Fed. 870 ; 194 Fed. 207 ; 207 Fed. 164 ; 12 Land Dec. 499 ; 13 L. D. 54 ; 

 14 L. D. 209 ; 15 L. D. 284 ; 16 L. D. 190 ; 18 L. D. 524 ; 19 L. D. 245, 585 ; 

 20 L. D. 32, 103; 24 L. D. 588; 28 L. D. 61, 281, 313, 363, 472, 574; 29 

 L. D. 344, 384, 593; 30 L. D. 23, 94, 378, 519, 551, 609; 31 L. D. 372; 32 

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