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LUMBERMEN'S LICENSE. 



SEC. 12. That timber on lands of the first-class, which is not 

 needed for mining or agricultural development in the neighbor- 

 hood, shall be disposed of to lumbermen or others, as it may be 

 applied for under a "lumbermen's license," in quantities not less 

 in amount than thatstanding or being on one section nor more than 

 that standing or being on twenty-five contiguous sections. Such 

 license shall be granted upon the payment of a fee of twenty-five 

 dollars, by the Commissioner of Forests with the approval of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, under the conditions set forth in section 

 thirteen of this act, and shall confer the right to cut timber and 

 sell the same from as many sections or acres as have been located 

 and paid for. The licensee shall also pay one dollar per acre for 

 the whole number of acres covered by this license, before he may 

 begin operations and not later than six months after the granting 

 of said license. And a further charge of not less than one cent per 

 cubic foot shall be paid by the licensee after the timber has been 

 cut and before the same is renewed. Such license shall be good for 

 two years, and in all cases in which not more than ten sections of 

 timber are embraced in the license it shall not be renewed unless 

 reasons satisfactory to the forestry board are shown why the same 

 could not have been used and its privileges exhausted during the 

 period for which it was first given, nor in any case shall such license 

 be renewed more than once or for a longer term than two years. 

 Where the license embraces more than ten sections of timber the 

 same rule shall apply in regard to its renewal as in the case of 

 licenses for a legs amount of timber, except that for every five 

 above ten embraced in the license there may be a renewal of the 

 license for one additional year. No licensee shall be authorized to 

 apply for or take out a second "lumberman's license" until he 

 shall have cut and disposed of three-fourths of the timber to which 

 he is entitled by the license previously given. 



SEC. 13. That all applications for " lumberman's license " 

 are to be made to the Commissioner of Forests and must be 

 accompanied by a statement of the location and approximate 

 amount of the timber sought by the applicant, together with a cer- 

 tificate of the local forest inspector to the effect that the lands on 

 which such timber is situated are of the first-class and not covered 

 by any of the local licenses as provided in section ten, nor pre- 

 sumably needed for such within a reasonable time. Such applica- 

 tions shall be considered in the months of August and September 

 only, and no license shall be granted before at least three months 

 have expired from the date of application and the same has been 

 advertised three times in three local papers, if there be so many, 

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