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and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the 



Interior. Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from 



Prospecting, etc. entering upon such forest reservations for all 



proper and lawful purposes, including that of 



prospecting, locating, and developing the min- 



Compilance with e ral resources thereof: Prorided, That such 



ru e8 " persons comply with the rules and regulations 



covering such forest reservations. a 



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The settlers residing within the exterior boundaries of such 

 forest reservations, or in the vicinity thereof, 

 churches. ma y maintain schools and churches within 



such reservation, and for that purpose may oc- 

 cupy any part of the said forest reservation, not exceeding two 

 acres for each schoolhouse and one acre for a church. 



The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within 

 such reservations shall not be affected or 

 jurisdiction. changed by reason of the existence of such 



reservations, except so far as the punishment 

 of offenses against the United States therein is concerned; the 

 intent and meaning of this provision being that the State wherein 

 any such reservation is situated shall not, by reason of the estab- 

 lishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor the inhabitants thereof 

 their rights and privileges as citizens, or be absolved from their 

 duties as citizens of the State. 



All waters on such reservations may be used for domestic min- 

 ing, milling, or irrigation purposes, under the 

 a laws of the State wherein such forest reserva- 



tions are situated, or under the laws of the United States and the 

 rules and regulations established thereunder. 



Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, with 

 the approval of the President, after sixty days' 

 Restoration of min- notice thereof, published in two papers of gen- 

 lands To "pubMe do- eral circulation in the State or Territory wherein 

 main. any forest reservation is situated, and near the 



said reservation, any public lands embraced 

 within the limits of any forest reservation which, after due exam- 

 ination by personal inspection of a competent person appointed 

 for that purpose 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 



a The stars indicate the omission of the lieu-selection law which 

 was repealed by the act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1264). 



