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shall, under penalty of immediate forfeiture of the permit hereby 



granted, when requested to do so, assist the 



in flghtfnl nre. aS fo - rest officers in fighting fire, and shall furnish 



any men under its employ necessary for that 



purpose, and shall otherwise assist to the extent of its power in 



protecting the forest reserves and maintaining good order upon 



them. ~ 



SEC. 10. That Congress shall have power at any time to amend, 

 modify, or repeal this act. 



HOMESTEADS IN YELLOWSTONE FOREST RESERVE. 



ACT OF MARCH 15, 1906. 



The general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States 

 Homestead laws ex- ^ e > an( ^ tne same are hereby, extended to and 

 tended to six town- ov^r the surveyed lands in townships forty- 

 ships in Yellowstone eight, fortv-nine, and fifty, and ranges one 

 hundred and five and one hundred and six, 

 within the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, and the said lands shall 

 be subject to entry ninety days after the passage of this act, within 

 which ninety-day period the Secretary of Agriculture may set aside 

 such portions of said lands as were not occupied by a bona fide set- 

 tler January first, nineteen hundred and six, not to exceed in the 

 aggregate one hundred and sixty acres, as may be necessary for 

 forest-reserve administrative purposes, which lands so set aside 

 shall not be subject to settlement entry or location during the life 

 of the forest reserve: Provided, That the commutation clause of 

 the homestead laws shall not apply to the said lands, and any 

 bona fide settler who made settlement on said lands prior to Jan- 

 uary first, nineteen hundred and six, and who had prior to that 

 time lost or exercised his homestead right, may enter and perfect 

 title to the lands settled upon by him as though his homestead right 

 had not been lost or exercised, upon the payment of the sum of 

 one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land included in 

 his entry at the time of making final proof. 



AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT. 



ACT OF JUNE 11, 1906. 



The Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is 

 hereby authorized, upon application or other- 

 Secretary of Agri- \vine, to examine and ascertain as to the loca- 

 ruitufaUand fo'set- ^ on an( ^ ext ent of lands within permanent or 

 t lenient. temporary forest reserves, except the follow- 



ing counties in the State of California: Inyo, 

 Tulare, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los 

 Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego, 

 which are chiefly valuable for agriculture, and which, in his opin- 



