APPENDIX 



PROPOSED BILL 



For the Protection and Administration of Forests on the Public 



Domain. 



DESIGNATION OF FOREST LANDS. 



SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the Untied States of America in Congress assembled, That all lands 

 now owned or controlled, or which may be hereafter owned or 

 controlled by the United States, and which are now or shall here 

 after be devoted to forest uses, are, for the purposes of this act, de- 

 clared to be public forest lands. 



WITHDRAWAL OF FOREST LANDS FROM ENTRY. 



SEC. 2. That the unsurveyed public lands of the United States, 

 embracing natural forests, or which are less valuable for agricultural 

 than for forest purposes, and all public lands returned by the public 

 surveys as timber lands, shall be, and the same are hereby, with, 

 drawn from survey, sale, entry or disposal under existing laws, and 

 shall be disposed of only as provided in this act, and as Congress 

 may hereafter prescribe. 



PREVENTING ENTRIES UPON FOREST LANDS. 



SEC. 3. That every person applying to make an entry or filing of 

 public lands under any law of the United States before the classifi- 

 cation and survey of the public forest lands, as provided in this act, 

 shall be made, shall file with his application an affidavit, under 

 oath, corroborated by witnesses, stating that the land applied for is 

 not exclusively or mainly forest land, is not situated near the head- 

 waters of any stream, and is more valuable for agricultural or mining 

 purposes than for the timber growing thereon, and each such appli- 

 cant shall state particularly his means of information and his per- 

 sonal knowledge of the facts to which he testifies, and upon a 

 certificate from the Commissioner of Forests constituted by this act 

 the lands so entered may be disposed of under existing laws; and 

 every person swearing falsely to any such affidavit shall be deemed 



