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HISTORY AND FACTS OF FOREST POLICY. 



PARAGRAPH XXVII. 



UNITED STATES FOREST POLITICAL HISTORY. 



FIRST PERIOD, UP TO 1800. "EARLY REGULATIONS." 



1640 Exeter (now New Hampshire) regulates oak cutting. 



1682 Pennsylvania ordains that "The grantee must keep the 

 one-sixth part of land (granted in Pennsylvania) in forest." 



1 708 New Hampshire fines the cutting of mast trees on ungranted 

 land and appoints the first forest official, "Surveyor Ge- 

 neral of Forests." 



1780 All thirteen States adopt forest fire laws, modeled after 

 European patterns but without European police. 



17851805 Travels of the two Micheaux and the publication' 

 of their "North American Sylva," 



SECOND PERIOD, 1800-1870. "STAGNATION OF 



FOREST POLICY." 



1799 Congress appropriates $200,000 for the purchase of naval 

 timber and timber lands on some of the Georgia coast 

 islands. 



1817 Congress authorizes the President to reserve live oak and 

 cedar tracts in the Louisiana Purchase for naval use. 

 (About 250,000 acres were thus reserved in the succeed- 

 ing years.) 



1822 Congress authorizes the President to use land and naval 

 forces for timber protection, in parks only (still in use). 



1827 Congress appropriates $20,000 for silvicultural experi- 

 ments with live oak. 



1831 Congressional act punishing persons "cutting or dest- 

 roying live oak, red cedar, or other trees growing on 

 U. S. land." 



