APPENDIX. 



STATUTES. 



Creation and Administration of Forest Reserves. 



CREATION. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1891 (26 STAT., 1095). 



SEC. 24. That the President of the United States may/from time 



to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or 



regeirrS? 11 Territory having public land bearing forests, in 



any part of the public lands wholly or in part 



covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value 



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



proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations and 



tin- limits thereof. 



ADMINISTRATION AND MODIFICATION. 



ACT OF JUNE 4, 1897 (30 STAT., 34-36). 

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All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the 

 President of the United States under the provisions of the act 

 approved March third, eighteen hundred and 

 Vol. 26, p. loo. ninet y_ ne, the orders for which shall be and 

 remain in full force an'd effect, unsuspended and unrevoked, 

 and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved 

 as public forest reserves under said act, shall be as far as practica- 

 ble controlled and administered in accordance with the following 

 provisions: 



No public forest reservation shall be established, except to im- 

 prove and protect the forest within the reserva- 

 Forest reserva- tion, or for the purpose of securing favorable 

 tablihed* B *" '" '*" <'"" ( liti ( .iis of water flows, and to furnish a con- 

 tinuous supply of timber for the use and neces- 

 sities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or 

 intent of these provisions, or of the act providing for such reserva- 

 tions, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for 



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