88 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUKE. 



Purposes for which forest reserves may he administered and established. 



All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States under the provisions of the Act approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninet3'-one, the orders for which 

 shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and unre- 

 voked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and re- 

 served as jDublic forest reserves under said Act, shall be as far as prac- 

 ticable controlled and administered in accordance with the following 

 provisions : 



No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve 

 and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of 

 securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a con- 

 tinuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 

 United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, 

 or of the Act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclu- 

 sion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for 

 agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes. 



Protection of forest reserves; rules and regulations therefor. 



The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the pro- 

 tection against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public 

 forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or which 

 may be hereafter set aside under the said Act of March third, eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he may 

 make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will 

 insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their 

 occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruc- 

 tion; and any violation of the provisions of this Act or such rules and 

 regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the xVct of June 

 fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty- 

 three hundred and eighty-eight of the Eevised Statutes of the United 

 States. 



Act Jime 4, 1897, c. 2, s. 1, 30 Stat. 34. 



These are further provisions of the sundry civil appropriation act for 

 the fiscal year 1S98, cited above. 



The provisions of act March 3, 1S91, c. 561, s. 24, referred to above, are 

 set forth above. 



The provisions of Rev. St. sec. 538S, as amended by act June 4, ISSS, 

 c. 340, 25 Stat. 16G, mentioned above, are incorporated in "An act to 

 codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," act March 

 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 50, set forth on p. 105, post. Said Rev. St. sec. 5388 and 

 said act June 4, 1888, are expressly repealed by section 341 of said act 

 March 4, 1909. 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall execute all laws affecting public 

 lands reserved under the provisions of act March 3, 1891, c. 561. s. 24, 

 except such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, entering, 

 etc., and i)atenting of such lands, by the provisions of "An act providing 

 for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior 

 to the Department of Agriculture," act February 1, 1905, c. 2SS, s. 1, set 

 forth on p. 86, ante. 



Sale of timber on forest reservations. 



For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and 

 promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, tlie Secretary 

 of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, 

 may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, 

 matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reserva- 



