92 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



limits of the States of Oregon, "Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colo- 

 rado, or Wyoming, except by Act of Congress. 



Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1271. 



This is a proviso annexed to the appropriation for administration, etc., 

 of the national forests in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1908. A proviso in the same words was annexed to section 2, act 

 June 25, 1910, c. 421, and the word " California " is added by act August 

 24, 1912, c. 3G9. amending said act June 25, 1910, c. 421, s. 2. Said act 

 June 25, 1910, c. 421, s. 2, as amended by said act August 24, 1912, is set 

 forth on p. 97, post. 



ACT JUNE 30 1906, c. 3913. (34 Stat. 669.) 



Permission to remove timber and other forest products from national forests. 



* * * hereafter sales of timber on forest reserves in the State of 

 California shall in every respect conform to the law governing such 

 sales in other States, as set forth in the act of June sixth, nineteen 

 hundred (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page six hundred and sixty- 

 one) J * * * 



Act June 30, 1906, c. 3013, 34 Stat. 684. 



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

 year 1907, cited above. 



Act June G, 1900, c. 804, 31 Stat. 661, mentioned in this provision, ex- 

 pressly amends act June 4, 1897, c. 2, s. 1, and the provisions of that act, 

 as amended, are set forth on p. 88, ante. By a proviso annexed to said 

 act June 0, 1900. the provisions of said act June 4, 1897, as amended 

 thereby, were made inaxjplicable to forest reservations in the State of 

 California. 



ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 



Permission to remove timber and other forest products from national forests. 



* * * the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, per- 

 mit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the national 

 forests, except the Black Hills and Harney National Forests in South 

 Dakota, to be exported from the State, Territory, or the District of 

 Alaska in which said forests are respectively situated: Provided, 

 That the exportation of dead and insect-infested timber only from 

 said Black Hills and Harney National Forests shall be allowed until 

 such time as the Forester shall certify that the ravages of the destruc- 

 tive insects in said forests are practically checked, but in no case after 

 July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen • * * * 



Act August 10, 3912, c. 284. 37 St:it. 280. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. Similar provisions are contained in the similar 

 acts for previous fiscal years beginning with 1906. 



Sale of mature, dead, and down timber in national forests. 



* * * That the Secretary of Agricidture, under such niles and 

 regulations as he shall establish, is hereby authorized and directed 

 to sell at actual cost, to homestead settlers and farmers, for their 

 domestic use, the mature, dead, and down timber in national forests, 

 but it is not the intent of this provision to restrict the authority or 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to permit the free use of timber as pro- 

 vided in the Act or June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 



Act August 10, 1912, c. 2,84, 37 Stat. 287. 



This is a provision of the airi iriiltnral approjiriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



