10 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



visions of section twenty-four of the act entitled "An act to repeal the 

 timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," approved March third, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one. and acts supplemental to and 

 amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, except- 

 ing such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appro- 

 priating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patent- 

 ing of any of such lands. 



Administration of National Forests. 



Act of June 4. 1S97 (30 Stat, 11). 



All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States under the provisions of the act approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the orders for which 

 shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and un- 

 revoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and 

 reserved as public forest reserves under said act, shall be as far as 

 practicable controlled and administered in accordance with the fol- 

 lowing provisions : 



Purposes of establishment. 



Xo public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve 

 and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of 

 securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a con- 

 tinuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 

 United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, 

 or of the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the in- 

 clusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or 

 for agricultural purposes, than for forest purposes. 



Regulation of occupancy and use. 



The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protec- 

 tion against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public 

 forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or 

 which may be hereafter set aside under the said act of March third, 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued: and 

 he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service 

 as will insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate 

 their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from 

 destruction: and any violation of the provisions of this act or such 

 rules and regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the act 

 of June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section 

 fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Eevised Statutes of the 

 United States. 



Sale of timber. 



For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and 

 promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary 

 of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall pre- 

 scribe, may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, 

 matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reserva- 

 tions as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests thereon, 

 and may sell the same for not less than the appraised value in such 

 quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in the 

 State or Territory in which such timber reservation may be situated, 



