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and unless they are eliminated from the reserve. (Ap- 

 pendix, p. 191.) 



The removal of timber from unsurveyed forest re- 

 serve lands without permit is trespass and will be 

 promptly reported in all cases, without regard to the 

 fact that after survey such lands may become sections 

 16 and 36, or railroad sections. (Appendix, pp. 191,194:.) 



VI. TOWN SITES. 



Lands in forest reserves embraced in valid town-site 

 settlements made before the establishment of the re- 

 serves may, unless abandoned, be entered and patented 

 under the town-site laws, without regard to the length 

 of time which has elapsed after their settlement or 

 after the establishment of the reserve. If a petition 

 addressed to the Forester and an investigation made 

 under his direction show that it is necessar}^ and advis- 

 able to use forest-reserve land for town-site purposes, 

 an Executive order to exclude the land may be issued, 

 in which case provision will be made for its entry 

 under the town-site laws and the regulations of the 

 Department of the Interior. 



VII. RAILROAD LANDS. 



A railroad does not acquire title to nor the right to 

 use, lease, or sell land within the primary limits of its 

 grant before Government survey, nor within its in- 

 demnity limits before Government survey and approval 

 of selection. (Appendix, p. 194.) When the plats and 

 field notes of survey show land in forest reserves to be 

 mineral in character, use, lease, or sale by a railroad 

 will not be allowed unless its selection of such land has 

 been approved by the Department of the Interior. 



