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within the reservations, empowers them to build 

 wagon-roads to their holdings, enables them to 

 build schools and churches, and provides for the 

 exchange of such for allotments outside the reser- 

 vation limits. The state within which a reserva- 

 tion is located maintains its jurisdiction over -all 

 persons within the boundaries of the reserve. 



Under the above enactment, the commissioner 

 of the General Land Office has formulated rules 

 and regulations for the forest reservations, and a 

 survey of the reserves is being made by the United 

 States Geological Survey, the appropriations for 

 such a survey having been continued from year 

 to year, and the date for the segregation of agri- 

 cultural lands and their return to the public domain 

 open for entry having been deferred; ; 



The appointment of forest superintendents, ran- 

 gers, etc., although not with technical knowledge, to 

 take charge of the reservations marks the beginning 

 of a settled policy of the United States Government 

 to take care of its long-neglected forest lands. 



Gradually the people of the Western states, who 

 were opposed to the reservation policy, believing 

 it an interference of their rights and an impedi- 

 ment to settlement, have learned to appreciate the 

 wisdom and the object of the reservations, espe- 

 cially in the irrigation districts. Annually new 

 areas are being reserved and the administrative 

 features developed. At present writing there are 

 set aside 58,850,000 acres in 56 reservations, in- 



