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usual advertisement of sale: 7W///.V/ fm-fhrr, That he may, in 

 his discretion, sell without advertisement, in. quantities to suit 

 "applicants, at a fair appraisement, timber and cord wood not 

 exceeding in value one hundred dollars stum page: A ud prodded 



ftirtJier, That in cases in which advertisement 

 Private sale where \$ had and no satisfactory bid is received, 

 bid unsatisfactory. Qr iu ( . {IS( , H m which the bidder fails to com- 

 plete the purchase, the timber may be sold, 

 without further advertisement, at private sale, in the' discretion 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, at not less than the appraised 

 valuation, in quantities to suit purchasers, " payments for such 



timber to be made to the receiver of the local 

 Pa) ments, how made, land office of the district wherein said timber 



may be sold, under such rules and regulations 

 as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and the moneys 

 arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the receiver of such 

 land office to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in a 

 separate account, and shall be covered into the Treasury. Such 



timber, before being sold, shall be marked and 

 Cutting and removal, designated, and shall be cut and removed under 



the supervision of some person appointed for 

 that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, not interested in the 

 purchase or removal of such timber nor in the employment of the 

 purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make 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. 

 The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to 



be prescribed by him, the use of timber and 

 Free use of timber, gtone f onn( j upon such reservations, free of 



Ct( IM s<Tiii*rs, (I*. . . -, 



charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, 

 and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, 

 mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be 

 needed by such persons for such purposes; such timber to be used 

 within the State or Territory, respectively, where such reserva- 

 tions may be located. 



Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the egress or 

 ingress of actual settlers residing within the 

 of semers residing boundaries of such reservations, or from cross- 

 witiiin reservations, ing the same to and from their property or 

 ot<> - homes; and such wagon roads and other im- 



provements maybe constructed thereon as maybe necessary to 

 reach their homes and to utilize their property under such rules 



" The matter in quotation marks is taken bodily from the art of 

 June 6, 1900 (31 Star. Ml ), and, since the passage of the Agricul- 

 tural appropriation act for 1907, is the timber-sale law for all forest 

 reserves. (Appendix, p. 162.) 



