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Personnel. 



Act of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat 628) ; sec. 554, title 16, U. S. C. 



That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when prac- 

 ticable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which 

 the said reserves, respectively, are situated. 



OCCUPANCY AND USE 



Rules and regulations. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35) ; sec. 551, title 16, U. S. C. 



He [Secretary of Agriculture] may make such rules and regula- 

 tions 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 pun- 

 ished as is provided for in the Act of June four, Eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-eight, amending section five thousand three hundred and 

 eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



Note}. — Grazing and special-use permits are issued under authority of this 

 act. 



Ingress and egress. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 36) ; sec. 478, title 16, U. S. C. 



Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the egress or 

 ingress of actual settlers residing within the boundaries of such 

 reservations, or from crossing the same to and from their property 

 or homes; and such wagon roads and other improvements may be 

 constructed thereon as may be necessary to reach their homes and 

 to utilize their property under such rules and regulations as may be 

 prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. 



Sale of timber. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35) ; March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1132) ; April 12, 1926 

 (44 Stat. 242) ; sees. 476, 616, title 16, U. S. C. 



For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and 

 promoting the younger growth on national forests, the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, 

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

 tured, or large growth of trees found upon such national forests 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. Before such sale 

 shall take place, notice thereof shall be given for not less than thirty 

 days, by publication in one or more newspapers of general circula- 

 tion, as he may deem necessary, in the State or Territory where such 

 national forest exists: Provided, however, That in cases of unusual 

 emergency the Secretary of Agriculture may, in the exercise of his 

 discretion, permit the purchase of timber and cord wood in advance 



