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timber nor in the employment of the purchaser 

 thereof. Such supervisor shall make a report in 

 writing to the Commissioner of the General Land 

 Office and to the receiver in the land office in 

 which such reservation shall be located of his 

 doings in the premises. 



" ' Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, with the approval of the President, 

 after sixty days' notice thereof, published in two 

 papers of general circulation in the State or Terri- 

 tory wherein any forest reservation is situated and 

 near the said reservation, any public lands em- 

 braced within the limits of any forest reservation 

 which, after due examination by personal inspec- 

 tion of a competent person appointed for that pur- 

 pose by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be 

 found better adapted for mining or for agricultural 

 purposes than for forest usage, may be restored to 

 the public domain. And any mineral lands in any 

 forest reservation which have been or which may 

 be shown to be such, and subject to entry under 

 the existing mining laws of the United States and 

 the rules and regulations applying thereto, shall 

 continue to be subject to such location and entry, 

 notwithstanding any provisions herein contained.' " 



The law authorizes the Secretary of the Interior 

 to permit the use of timber and stone by bona-fide 

 settlers, miners, etc., for fire wood, fencing, build- 

 ings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic 

 purposes. It protects the rights of actual settlers 



