86 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



FOREST SERVICE. 



ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 805. (31 Stat. 922.) 

 Chief of bureau. 



* * * One forester, who shall be chief of bureau, * * * 



Act. March 2, 1901, c. 805, 31 Stat. 929. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1902, cited above. Provisions in the same words are contained in 

 the similar acts for subsequent fisc;\l years. The provision in the act 

 for the fiscal year 1913 is set forth on p. 173, post. Previous to the 

 reorganization of the Division of Forestry into the Bureau of Forestry, 

 by a provision of act June 3, 1902, c. 985, set forth on p. 11, ante, the 

 agricultural appropriation acts, for the fiscal years 1895 to 1901, in- 

 clusive, contained provisions for " One forester, who shall be chief of 

 division." 



ACT JUNE 3, 1902, c. 985: (32 Stat. 286.) 



Establishment of Bureau of Forestry. 



All existing statutes relating to the Division of Forestry, reorganized 

 into the Bureau of Forestry, not otherwise repealed, are continued in 

 effect as applying to the bureau into which the division is reorganized, 

 by a proviso annexed to the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1903, cited above, set forth on p. 11, ante. 



ACT FEBRUARY 1, 1905, c. 288. An act providing for the transfer of forest 

 reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agri- 

 culture. (33 Stat. 628.) 



Secretary of Agriculture to execute laws affecting forest reserves; exceptions. 



That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from 

 and after the passage of this Act, execute or cause to be executed all 

 laws affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the 

 provisions of section twenty-four of the Act entitled "An Act to 

 repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and Acts supple- 

 mental to and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so 

 reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, 

 locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconve3'ing, certify- 

 ing, or patenting of any of such lands. 



Act February 1. 1905, c. 288, s. 1. 33 Stat. 628. ^ 



Act March 3. 1891, c. 561, s. 24. mentioned in this section, is set forth 

 below. 



ACT MARCH 3. 1899. c. 424. (30 Stat. 1074.) 

 Establishment of boundaries of forest reservations. 



* * * That hereafter all standard, meander, township, and sec- 

 tion lines of the public land surveys shall, as heretofore, be estab- 

 lished under the direction and supervision of the Commissioner of 

 the Cleneral Land Oilice, whether the lands to be surveyed are within 

 or without reservations, except that where the exterior boundaries of 

 public forest reservations are required to be coincident with standard, 

 township, or section lines such boundaries may, if not previously 

 established in the ordinary course of the public land survej^s, be 

 established and nuirked under the supervision of the Director of the 

 United States Geological Survey whenever necessary to complete the 

 survey of such exterior boundaries. 



Act March 3, 1S99, c. 424. 30 Stat. 1097. 



This is a i)rov5so annexed to the sundry civil appropriation act for the 

 fiscal year 1900, cited above. 



