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The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within 

 such reservations shall not be affected or 

 jurhdictkni. " changed by reason of the existence of such 



reservations, except so far as the punishment 

 of offenses against the United States therein is concerned ; the 

 intent and meaning of this provision being that the State 

 wherein any such reservation is situated shall not, by reason 

 of the establishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor the in- 

 habitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens, or be 

 absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. 



All waters on such reservation may be used for domestic, 



mining, milling, or irrigation purposes, under 



Wuters. the laws of the State wherein such forest 



reservations are situated, or under the laws 



of the United States and the rules and regulations established 



thereunder. 



Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, 

 with the approval of the President, after sixty 

 Restoration of min- days' notice thereof, published hi two papers 

 Limis to a puM I ie U So! of general circulation in the State or Terri- 

 main. tory wherein any forest reservation is sit- 



uated, and near the said reservation, any 

 public lands embraced within the limits of any forest reserva- 

 tion which, after due examination by personal inspection of a 

 competent person appointed for tli.-it purpose by the Secretary 

 of the Interior shall be found better adapted for mining or for 

 agricultural purposes than for forest usage, may be restored to 

 the public domain. And any mineral lands in any forest reser- 

 vation which have been or which may be shown to be such, 

 and subject to entry under the existing mining* laws of the 

 United States and the rules and regulations applying thereto, 

 shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, not- 

 withstanding any provisions herein contained. 



TRANSFER OF NATIONAL FORESTS. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 1, 1905 (33 STAT., 628). 



The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from 

 and after the passage of this act, execute or 

 Transfers pare of cause to be executed all laws affecting public 

 nfe^SJpartmeiJt 8 of lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under 

 Agriculture. the provisions of section twenty-four of the 



act entitled "An act to repeal the timber- 

 culture laws, and for other purposes," approved March third, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and acts supplemental to and 

 amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, 

 excepting such laws as ,-ffect the surveying, prospecting, locat- 



