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detriment of actual settlers. Therefore provisions should be made to 

 give actual settlers ample time in which to exercise their rights. 

 Accordingly, the Commission recommends that in the event of the 

 modification or revocation of any order temporarily withdrawing lands 

 from settlement and entry resulting in the release of such lands from 

 such withdrawal, or in the event of the exclusion or release of lands 

 from any forest reserve established by the President, under section 24 of 

 the act approved March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture 

 laws, and for other purposes," the nonraineral public lands so released 

 from a forest reserve, and not otherwise appropriated or reserved, 

 shall become subject to settlement from the date of the order or proc- 

 lamation so releasing or excluding them, but shall not become subject 

 to entry, filing, or selection under any law providing for the disposal 

 of nonmineral public lands until after sixty days' notice by such pub- 

 lication as the becretary of the Interior may prescribe, nor shall they 

 become subject to entry, filing, or selection under any law except the 

 homestead laws until ninety days after said notice. 



The Commission will continue its investigations and make further 

 report. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



W. A. Richards. 



F. H. Newell. 



GiFFOKD PlNCHOT. 



The President. 



