104 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FORESTS. 



Sec. 51. Whoever shall cut, chip, chop, or box any tree upon any 

 lands belonging to the United States, or upon any lands covered by 

 or embraced in any unperfected settlement, application, filing, entry, 

 selection, or location, made under any law of the United States, for 

 the purpose of obtaining from such tree any pitch, turpentine, or 

 other substance, or shall knowingly encourage, cause, procure, or 

 aid in the cutting, chipping, chopping, or boxing of any such tree, 

 or shall buy, trade for, or in any manner acquire any pitch, turpentine, 

 or other substance, or any article or commodity made from any such 

 pitch, turpentine, or other substance, when he has knowledge that the 

 same has been so unlawfully obtained from such trees, shall be fined 

 not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one 

 year, or both. 



Cutting of timber on mineral lands. 



Act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88). 

 [This act applies only to unreserved land not within National Forests.] 



Sec. 1. All citizens of the United States and other persons, bona 

 fide residents of the State of Colorado, or Nevada, or either of the 

 Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, 

 or Montana, and all other mineral districts of the United States, 

 shall be, and are hereby, authorized and permitted to fell and remove, 

 for building, agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, any 

 timber or other trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands 

 being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the 

 United States, except for mineral entry, in either of said States, Ter- 

 ritories, or districts of which such citizens or persons may be at the 

 time bona fide residents, subject to such rules and regulations as the 

 Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the protection of the 

 timber and of the undergrowth growing upon such lands, and for 

 other purposes : Provided, The provisions of this act shall not extend 

 to railroad corporations. 



Note. — By virtue of power granted to the Secretary of the Interior under act 

 of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88), said Secretary provides, in his " rules and regula- 

 tions governing the use of timber on the public mineral lands." (29 L. D., 571) : 



" Sec. 9. Persons felling or removing timber under the provisions of this act 

 must utilize all of each tree cut that can be profitably used, and must dispose of 

 the tops, brush, and other refuse in such manner as to prevent the spread of 

 forest fires." 



Duty of land officers. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of any 

 local land office in whose district any' mineral land may be situated to 

 ascertain from time to time whether any timber is being cut or used 

 upon any such lands, except for the purposes authorized by this act, 

 within their respective land districts; and, if so, they shall immedi- 

 ately notify the Commissioner of the General Land Office of that 

 fact; and all necessary expenses incurred in making such proper 

 examinations shall be paid and allowed such register and receiver in 

 making up their next quarterly accounts. 



Penalty. 



Sec. 3. Atry person or persons who shall violate the provisions of 

 this act, or any rules and regulations in pursuance thereof made by 

 the Secretary of the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 



