214 THE USE BOOK. 



ACT OF MARCH 4, 1907 (34 STAT., 1256). 



[1269] Forest reserves * * * shall hereafter be known 

 as National Forests. * * * 



ACT OF MARCH 4, 1907 (34 STAT., 1256). 



[1271] Hereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor 

 shall any additions be made to one heretofore 

 No new Forests to created within the limits of the States of 

 States? * Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colo- 



rado, or Wyoming, except by act of Congress. 



ADMINISTRATION. 



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



a All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by 



the President of the United States under the 

 26 Stat., 1095. provisions of the act approved March [35] 



third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the 

 orders for which shall be and remain in full force and effect, 

 unsnspended and unrevoked, and all public lands that may 

 hereafter be set aside and reserved as public forest reserves 

 under said act, shall be as far as practicable controlled and 

 administered in accordance with the following provisions : 

 No public forest reservation shall be established, except to 



improve and protect the forest within the 

 when to be estab' reservation, or for the purpose of securing 

 lished. favorable conditions of water flows, and to 



furnish a continuous supply of timber for the 

 use and necessities of citizens of the United States ; but it is 

 not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of the act 

 providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion 

 therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for 

 agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes. 

 The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the 



protection against destruction by fire and dep- 

 teetion againsT fire", reflations upon the public forests and forest 

 etc. ' reservations which may have been set aside or 



which may be hereafter set aside under the 



"The stars indicate the omission of the timber sale advertisement 



? revisions of this act which were modified by the act of June 6, 1900 

 31 Stat., 661), and repealed by the Agricultural appropriation act 

 of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 684). 



