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within forest reserves. (5) The recognition of the right of the 

 Government to withdraw from all appropriation areas within forest 

 reserves needed for administrative use. (G) The right of the Gov- 

 ernment to witlidraw specific land from coal entrv. (7) The right 

 of the Government to withdraw for public use land already with- 

 drawn or reserved, when the purposes of the two withdrawals are 

 not inconsistent. (8) The principle that withdrawals for prospec- 

 tive forest reserves do not interfere with the use of the land, except 

 to save the title to the Government. (9) The right of the Secretary 

 of the Interior to investigate and determine the \alidity of mining 

 locations or settlement claims, especially on forest reserves, prior to 

 entry or application in his Department. 



The Section of Law scrutinized all contracts before they past to the 

 Forester for his signature, and constantly advised other officers of the 

 Forest Service upon matters involving questions of law. 



Many acts and joint resolutions affecting the Forest Service were 

 past by the Fifty-ninth Congress at its first session, and approved 

 by the President, which may be briefly summarized as follows: 



Provisions of the homestead laws extended to certain lands in Yel- 

 lowstone Forest Reserve (.34 Stat. L., 62). Permit granted to the 

 Edison Electric Company for power plants in the San Bernardino, 

 San Gabriel, ancl Sierra Forest reserves (3-1 Stat. L., 103). Cutting, 

 chipping, or boxing of trees on the public lands for turpentine for- 

 bidden (34 Stat. L., 208). Historic and prehistoric ruins, monu- 

 ments, and objects of antiquity, many of them on forest reserves, pro- 

 tected; permits for excavation and collection (34 Stat. L., 225). 

 Agricultural lands in forest reserves to be examined for opening 

 under the homestead laws (34 Stat. L., 233). Lands granted to the 

 State of "Wisconsin for forestry purposes (34 Stat. L., 517). A game 

 preserve within the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve to be designated 

 by the President (34 Stat. L., 607). The forest reserve special fund 

 continued until otherwise provided by law ; to be expended after 

 June 30, 1908, only in accordance with specific estimates for each 

 succeeding fiscal year (34 Stat. L., 684). Ten per cent of receipts 

 from forest reserves to be paid to the States for iDublic schools and 

 roads in the counties in which the forest reserves are situated (34 

 Stat. L., 684). Sales of forest-reserve timber in California made 

 uniform with other States (34 Stat. L., 684). Exportation of timber 

 from the forest reserves in Idaho ancl of dead and insect-infested 

 timber from the Black Hills Forest Reserve authorized (34 Stat. L., 

 684). Refund of excess payments to depositors authorized from 

 forest reserve special fund (34 Stat. L., 684). Purchase of law books 

 for the Forest Service authorized (34 Stat. L., 685). Fifteen thou- 

 sand dollars apjDropriated for fence and sheds on the Wichita Forest 

 Reserve for a buffalo herd (34 Stat. L., 696). Five thousand dollars 

 appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the ex- 

 pense of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in 

 the forest reserves (34 Stat. L., 724). One hundred thousand dollars 

 appropriated for continuation of the survey of public lands in the 

 forest reserves (34 Stat. L., 728). Lands in Leadville Forest Reserve 

 granted to the town of Tincup for cemetery purposes (34 Stat. L., 

 796). Granting to the city of I.iOs Angeles rights of way for the city 

 water supply thru the Santa Barbara, San Gabriel, and Sierra 

 forest reserves (34 Stat. L., 801). The re-cession by the State of 



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