FOREST SERVICE. 87 



ACT MARCH 3, 1891, c. 561. (26 Stat. 1095.) 

 Establishment of forest reservations. 



Sec. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time 

 to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory havin"- public 

 hind bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in 

 part covered with timber or undergrowth, Avhother of commercial 

 value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by public 

 proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations 'and the 

 limits thereof. 



Act March 3, ISOl, c. 561. s. 24, 20 Stat. 1103. 



This section is a portion of "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and 

 for other purposes," cited above. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 

 Forest reserves to be known as national forests. 



* * * forest reserves * * * shall be known hereafter as 

 national forests * * * 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269. * 



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

 year 1908, cited above. 



ACT JUNE 4, 1897, c. 2. (30 Stat. 11.) 



Revocation, modification, or suspension of Executive orders establishing forest 

 reservations; orders setting aside lands in certain States, suspended. 



* * * That, to remove any doubt which may exist pertaining to 

 the authority of the President thereunto [public lands that may have 

 been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves by Executive 

 proclamation, under section twenty-four of the Act of Congress 

 approved iMarch third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled 

 "An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,""], the 

 President of the United States is hereby authorized and empowered 

 to revoke, modify, or suspend any and all such Executive orders and 

 proclamations, or any part thereof, from time to time as he shall 

 deem best for the public interests: Provided^ That the Executive 

 orders and proclamations dated February twenty-second, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-seven, setting apart and reserving certain lands 

 in the States of Wj^oming, Utah. Montana, Washington. Idaho, and 

 South Dakota as forest reservations, be. and they are hereby, sus- 

 pended, and the lands embraced therein restored to the public 

 domain the same as though said orders and proclamations had not 

 been issued: Provided further. That lands embraced in said reserva- 

 tions not otherwise disposed of before March first, eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-eight, shall again become subject to the operations of said 

 orders and proclamations as now existing or hereafter modified by 

 the President. 



Act June 4. 1S97, c. 2. s. 1, 30 Stat. 34. 



These are provisos of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 189S, cited above. , ,...,., 



The provisions of act March 3, ISOl. c. 561, s. 24, referral to in this 

 paragraph, are set forth above. 



By a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2007, set forth on p. 91, post, 

 no forest reserve sh;ill be created nor additions made to existing forest 

 reserves, within the States of Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Colo- 

 rado, or Wyoming, except by act of Congress. 



