PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO NATIONAL FORESTS 5 
Act March 3, 1925 (48 Stat. 1215); Sec. 516, Title 16, U. 8. C. 
Provided further, That with the approval of the National Forest 
Reservation Commission as provided by sections 6 and 7 of this act, 
and when the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture be, and hereby is, authorized, in his discretion, 
to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands within 
the exterior boundaries of national forests acquired under this act 
which, in his opinion, are chiefly valuable for the purposes of this 
act, and in exchange therefor to convey by deed not to exceed an 
equal value of such national forest land in the same State, or he 
may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an equal value of 
timber within such national forests in the same State, the values 
in each case to be determined by him: And provided further, That 
before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated 
exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each 
week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general cir- 
culation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands 
to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county 
in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such 
exchange. Timber given in such exchanges shall be cut and re- 
moved under the laws and regulations relating to such national 
forests, and under the direction and supervision and in accordance 
with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Lands so 
accepted by the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon acceptance, 
become parts of the national forests within whose exterior boundaries 
they are located, and be subject to all the provisions of this act. 
JURISDICTION 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Act February 1, 1905 (33 Stat. 628); Sec. 472, Title 16, U. 8. C. 
The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and 
after the passage of this act, execute or cause to be executed all laws 
affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the 
provisions 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 supple- 
mental to and amendatory thereof, and after such lands have been 
so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, 
locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certify- 
ing, or patenting of any of such lands. 
Note.—Laws relating to surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, enter- 
ing, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting are administered by 
Secretary of Interior. 
Act June 4, 1897 (80 Stat. 34); Sec. 475, Title 16, U. 8. C. 
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 land that may hereafter be set aside and 
