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and the Forestry Association, and especially for the 

 sale of timber, were hung on to this appropriation 

 clause. Under this act the reserves are still adminis- 

 tered. 



If the interior history of this bit of legislation were 

 revealed, it would probably appear that, not conception 

 of the importance of the subject, but the need for the 

 emplo}Tnent of a certain organized survey party in the 

 Geological Survey, was at the bottom of it. 



While this law had set aside one year, and a limited 

 sum, to accomplish the survey, this could not, of course, 

 be done, and hence appropriations were continued, and 

 the date for the segregation of the lands was deferred 

 sine die. For vears this forest ainesL-COTi tinned, .giiing- 



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the forest reservations was secured, and rules and regu- 

 lations for their administration were formulated by the 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office, marking the 

 beginning of a settled policy on the part of the United 

 States government to take care of its long neglected 

 forest lands. 



Meanwhile, the Division of Forestry had continued 

 to bring together and distribute in the shape of reports, 

 bulletins, circulars, addresses and letters, such informa- 



