36 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



of this act shall apply to the said counties in said reserve only so far 

 as is necessary to give and perfect title of such settlers or occupants 

 to lands chiefly valuable for agriculture therein occupied or claimed 

 by them prior to the said date, and all homestead entries under this 

 act in said counties in said reserve shall be described by metes and 

 bounds survey. 



(Section 1 is amended to read as above bv the act of February 8, 

 1907 (34 Stat. 883).) 



Settlement forbidden. 



Sec. 5. That nothing herein contained shall be held to authorize 

 any future settlement on any lands within forest reserves until such 

 lands have been opened to settlement as provided in this act, or to 

 in any way impair the legal rights of any bona fide homestead settler 

 who has or shall establish residence upon public lands prior to their 

 inclusion within a forest reserve. 



(The act of May 30. 1908, 35 Stat., 554, provides that the above 

 act "be amended by striking out of section 1 the following words: 

 1 Except the following counties in the State of California : Inyo, 

 Tulare, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, River- 

 side, and San Diego.' ' : It will be noted that while the excepting 

 words are stricken out the names of San Luis Obispo and Santa 

 Barbara Counties are not stricken out.) 



Certain lands in Lawrence and Pennington Counties, S. Dak., ex- 

 cepted from the operation of section 4 of the act of June 11. 1906, 

 but continued subject to all other provisions of said act. (Act Julv 

 3, 1912, 37 Stat, 188.) 



Status of lands listed. 



Act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 269). 



For the expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture for survey and listing of lands within forest reserves chiefly 

 valuable for agriculture and describing the same by metes and 

 bounds, or otherwise, as required by the act of June eleventh, nine- 

 teen hundred and six, and the act of March third, eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-nine, thirty-five thousand dollars: Provided, however. 

 That any such servey and the plat and field notes thereof paid for 

 out of this appropriation shall be made by an employee of the Forest 

 Service under the direction of the United States Surveyor General, 

 but no land listed under the act of June eleventh, nineteen hundred 

 and six. shall pass from the forest until patent issues. 



Segregation of agricultural lands. . 



Act of August 10. 1912 (37 Stat.. 269). 



That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed and required 

 to select, classify, and segregate, as soon as practicable, all lands 

 within the boundaries of National Forests that may be opened to 

 settlement and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the 

 National Forests, and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is 

 hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid. 



Act of March 4. 1913 (37 Stat.. 828). 



That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed and required 

 to select, classify, and segregate, as soon as practicable, all lands 



