UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION No. 135 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Issued January 1932 

 Revised January 1939 



THE PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND 



ADMINISTRATION OF THE NATIONAL FORESTS AND TO 



OTHER FOREST SERVICE ACTIVITIES 1 



Prepared by the Forest Service 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Establishment 1 



Jurisdiction 8 



Occupancy and use 11 



Fiscal matters 19 



Weeks law and amendments 25 



Page 



Clarke-McNary Act 29 



McSweeney-McNary Act 32 



Civilian Conservation Corps 35 



Flood Control Survey Act 89 



ESTABLISHMENT 



Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. 1269) 



The forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests. 



Purpose of. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 35) ; sec. 475, title 16, U. S. C. 



No 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. 



Creation by proclamation. 



Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1103) ; sec. 471. title 16, U. S. C. 



Sec. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time 

 to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having pub- 

 lic land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or 

 in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial 

 value or not, as public reservations, and the President shall, by 

 public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservations 

 and the limits thereof. 



1 In this compilation in general the exact wording of the statute is given, but in some 

 instances the substance of the law rather than the exact language is stated. The paging 

 in the citations refers to the page of the official statute on which the part of the statute 

 cited may be found, except where the entire statute is intended to be cited, in which case 

 the first page thereof is given. 



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