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California, or to reservations that may be hereafter created within 

 said State]. 1 

 Export of timber. 



* * * Such timber before being sold shall be marked and desig- 

 nated, and shall be cut and removed under the supervision of some 

 person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior 

 not interested in the purchase or removal of such timber nor in the 

 employment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make 

 report in writing * * * of his doings in the premises. 



Cutting 1 and removal. 



Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat, 1096). 



And the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit 

 timber and other forest products cut or removed from the National 

 Forests to be exported from the State or Territory in which said 

 forests are respectively situated. 



Sales of timber to settlers and farmers. 



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



That the Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regula- 

 tions as he shall establish, is hereby authorized and directed to sell at 

 actual cost, to homestead settlers and farmers, for their domestic use, 

 the mature, dead, and down timber in national forests, but it is not the 

 intent of this provision to restrict the authority of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to permit the free use of timber as provided in the Act of 

 June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. 



The act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88), authorizing the citizens of 

 Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, 

 Idaho, and Montana, and " all other mineral districts of the United 

 States " to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining 

 and domestic purposes, is printed on page 104, post, under " Trespass." 



Timber sales in California. 



Act of June 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 669). 



[684] Hereafter sales of timber on forest reserves in the State of 

 California shall in every respect conform to the law governing such 

 sales in other States, as set forth in the act of June sixth, nineteen 

 hundred (Thirty-first Statutes at Large, page six hundred and sixty- 

 one). 

 Timber sales, Minnesota National Forest. 



For timber sale provisions relating especially to the Minnesota 

 National Forest see section 2 of the act of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat., 

 268). 



FREE-USE PERMITS. 



Free use of .timber and stone. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11, 35), as amended by act of June 6, 1900 (31 



Stat, 661). 



The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to be 

 prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reser- 



^•This proviso is repealed by a provision in the agricultural appropriation act of June 

 30, 1906 (34 Stat., 669, 684), supra. 



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