APPENDIX. 



STATUTES. 



Creation and Administration of National Forests. 



CREATION AND MODIFICATION. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891 (26 STAT., 1095). 



[1103] SEC. 24. That the President of the United States may, 

 from time to time, set apart and reserve, in 

 ForTsis 1 . 011 nnv 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 estab- 

 lishment of such reservations and the limits thereof. 



ACT OF JUNE 4, 1897 (30 STAT., 11). 



[34] To remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to the 



authority of the President [in regard to the 



ed7o revoked- National Forests] the President of the United 



ify, or suspend EX- States is hereby authorized and empowered to 



ecutive orders or revoke, modify, or suspend any and all such 



Executive orders and proclamations or any 



part thereof, from time to time, as he may deem best for the 



public interest. * * * 



[ 36 ] The President is hereby authorized at any time to mod- 

 ify any Executive order that has been or may 

 President may mod- hereafter be made establishing any forest re- 

 der, a tcf X ' " serve - and b .v s " ch modification may reduce 



the area or change the boundary lines of such 

 reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such re- 

 serve. 



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