158 THE USE BOOK APPENDIX. 



the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes, than for forest 

 purposes. 



The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the 

 protection against destruction by fire and clep- 

 Provisions for pro- redations upon the public forests and forest 

 tection sigaiiu ire, res e r ' va tions 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 regu- 

 lations and establish such service as will insure 

 tions. " the objects of such reservations, namely, to 



regulate their occupancy and use and to pre- 

 serve the forests thereon from destruction; and any violation of 

 the provisions of this act or such rules and regulations shall be 

 punished as is provided for in the act of June 

 Penalty. fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty -eight, 



K?S.f sec!' 5388, p. amending section fifty-three hundred and 

 1044.'' ' eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the 



United States. (See page 182. ) 



For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber 

 and promoting the younger growth on forest 

 Timber. reservations, the Secretary of the Interior, un- 



onffi Itt 6 der such rules and regulations as he shall pre- 



scribe,' may cause to be designated and ap- 

 praised so much of the dead/matured, or large growth of trees 

 found upon such forest reservations as may be compatible with the 

 utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not 

 less than the appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser 

 as he shall prescribe, to be used in the State or Territory in which 

 such timber reservation may be situated, respectively; but not for 

 export therefrom (but see p. 163). 



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' ' Before such sale shall take place notice thereof 

 nf* sna11 be given by the Commissioner of the 

 General Land Office, for not less than thirty 

 days, by publication in one or more newspapers of general cir- 

 culation, as he may deem necessary, in the State or Territory 

 where such reservation exists: Provided, how- 

 sos * ever, That in cases of unusual emergency the 



Emergency, etc., Secretary of the Interior may, in the exercise 

 ad 1 ve S rti"em a enT Ce ' of his discretion, permit the purchase of tim- 

 ber and cord wood in advance of advertise- 

 ment of sale at rates of value approved by him and subject to 

 payment of the full amount of the highest bid resulting from the 



The stars indicate the omission of the timber sale advertise- 

 ment provisions of the act of June 4, 1897, as modified by the act 

 of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 661), and repealed by the Agricultural 

 appropriation act for 1907. 



