AN ACT RESPECTING FOREST RESERVES.* 

 Bill No. 47. 



Whereas it is expedient that reserves of Dominion lands in 

 the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British 

 Columbia should be made in order to protect and improve 

 the forests for the purpose of maintaining a permanent supply 

 of timber, to maintain conditions favorable to a continuous 

 water supply, and to protect, so far as the Parliament of Canada 

 has jurisdiction, the animals, fish and birds within the respective 

 boundaries of such reserves, and otherwise to provide for the 

 protection of the forests in the said provinces: Therefore, 

 His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate 

 and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: — 



1. This Act may be cited as the Dominion Forest Reserves 

 Act. 



2. All Dominion lands within the respective boundaries of 

 the reserves mentioned in the schedule to this Act are hereby 

 withdrawn from sale, settlement and occupancy under the 

 provisions of the Dominion Lands Act, or of any other Act, or 

 of any regulations made thereunder with respect to mines or 

 mining or timber or timber licenses or leases or any other matter 

 whatsoever, and after the passing of this Act no Dominion lands 

 within the boundaries of the said reserves shall be sold, leased 

 or otherwise disposed of, or be located or settled upon, and no 

 person shall use or occupy any part of such lands, except under 

 the provisions of this Act or any regulations made thereunder. 



3. The said reserves are hereby set apart and established 

 and shall hereafter be and be known as Dominion Forest Reserves, 

 for the maintenance and protection of the timber growing 

 or which may hereafter grow therein, and for the protection, 

 so far as the Parliament of Canada has jurisdiction, of the 

 animals and birds therein, and the fish in the waters therein; 

 but subject to such regulations as may be made under the pro- 

 visions of section 4 of this Act. 



4. The said reserves shall be under the control and manage- 

 ment of the Superintendent of Forestry, or such other person 

 as is from time to time in charge of forestry for Canada, subject 

 to the direction of the Minister of the Interior ; and the Governor 

 in Council may make regulations, not inconsistent with the 

 provisions of this Act, for the maintenance, protection, care. 



* Passed by House of Commons, 1906. 



