64 FOREST RESERVES IN IDAHO. 



United Statks Department of Agkicultuue. 



Office of the Secretaky. 

 WasJiinf/ton. ]>. C. Fehruary 1, IDOo. 

 The Forester. 



Forest Service. 

 Sir: The President has attached his sijLjnatiire to the followinji act: 



AN ACT Providniii- for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior 

 to the Department of Agriculture. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in ConfircKs assernJfled, That the Secretary of the Department of 

 Agriculture shall, from and after the passage of this act. execute or cause to 

 be executed all laws affecting pul)lic lands heretofore or hereafter reserved un- 

 der the provisions of section twenty-four of the act entitled. "An act to repeal 

 the timber-culture laws, and for other puri)oses." ai)proved 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 affect the surveying, 

 prospecting, locating. approi»riating. entering, relinquishing, recoiiveying, certi- 

 fying, or patenting of any such lands. 



Sec. 2. That pulp wood or wood pulp manufactured from timber in the district 

 of Alaska may be exported therefrom. 



Sec 3. That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, 

 from qualified citizens of the States or Teri'itories in which the said reserves, 

 respectively, are situated. 



Sec -T. That rights of way for the construction and maintenance of dams, res- 

 ervoirs, water i)lants. ditches, flumes. i)ipes, tunnels, and canals, within and 

 across the forest reserves of the United States, are hereby granted to citizens 

 and corporations of the Ignited States for numicipal or mining i)nri)oses, and for 

 the purposes of the milling and reduction of ores, during the i>eriod of their 

 beneficial use. under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the 

 Secretary of the Interior and subject 1«> the laws of the State or Territory in 

 which said reserves are respectively situated. 



Sec n. That all money received from the sale of any i>roducts or the use of 

 any land or resources of said forest reserves shall be covered into the Treasury 

 of the United States, and for a i)eriod of five years from the passage of this act 

 shall constitute a special fund available, until exi)ended. as the Secretary of 

 Agriculture may direct, for the protection, administration. imi)rovement, and 

 extension of Federal forest reserves. 



Approved. February I. 10()r>. 



By this act the administration of the Federal forest reserves is transferred 

 to this Department. Its provisions will be carried out through the Forest 

 Service, under your immediate supervision. Von have already tentatively ne- 

 gotiated the transfer with the Connnissioner of the General Land Office, whose 

 powers and duties thus transferred I assign to you. Until otherwise instructed, 

 you will submit to me for approval all questions of organization, sales, permits, 

 and privileges. excei)t such as are entrusted by the present regulations to field 

 officers on the ground. All ofticers of the forest reserve service transferred will 

 be subject to your instructions and will report directly to yon. You will at 

 once issue to them the necessary notice to this effect. 



In order to facilitate the i)ronq)t transaction of business upon the fore^st re- 

 serves and to give effect to the general i)olicy outlined below, you are instructed 

 to recommend at the earliest practicable date whatever changes may be necessary 

 in the rules and regulations governing the reserves, so that I may. in accordance 

 with the provisions of the above act, delegate to you and to forest reserve offi- 

 cers in the field so much of my authority as may be essential to the prompt 

 transaction of business and to the administration of the reserves in accordance 

 with local needs. Until such revision is made the present rules and regulations 

 will remain in force, excei»t those relating to the receii>t and transmittal of 

 moneys, in which case special fiscal agents of this Department will perform the 

 duties heretofore rendered by the rec-eivers of local land offices in accordance 

 with existing laws and regulations. The chief of records. Poorest Service, is 

 hereby designated a special fiscal agent, and you will direct him at once to exe- 

 cute and submit for my approval a bond for $20,000. 



