PRINCIPAL LAWS RELATING TO NATIONAL FORESTS 9 
Sale of timber at cost. 
Act August 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 287) ; Sec. 489, Title 16, U. S. C. 
The Secretary of Agriculture, under such rules and regulations as 
he shall establish, is 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 intention 
of this provision to restrict the authority of the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture to permit the free use of timber as provided in section 477, 
U. S. Code. 
Free use of timber. 
See. 477, Title 16, U. S. C. 
The Secretary of Agriculture may permit, under regulations to be 
prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon national 
forests, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and 
prospectors for minerals, for fire wood, fencing, building, mining, 
prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by such 
Bete) for such purposes. (Modified by sec. 616, title 16, U. S. 
ode. 
Exportation of timber. 
Act April 12, 1926 (44 Stat. 242); Sec. 616, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Timber lawfully cut on any national forest, or on the public lands 
in Alaska, may be exported from the State or Territory where grown 
if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the department administering 
the national forests, or the public lands in Alaska, the supply of 
timber for local use will not be endangered thereby, and the respec- 
tive Secretaries concerned are hereby authorized to issue rules and 
regulations to carry out the purposes of this act. 
Mineral lands. 
Act June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 36) ; Sec. 482, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Any mineral lands in any forest reservation which have been or 
which may be shown to be such, and subject to entry under the exist- 
ing mining laws of the United States and the rules and regulations 
applying thereto, shall continue to be subject to such location and 
entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained. 
Sec. 478, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Nor shall anything herein prohibit any person from entering upon 
such forest reservations for all proper and lawful purposes, including 
that of prospecting, locating, and developing the mineral resources 
thereof: Provided, That such persons comply with the rules and 
regulations covering such forest reservations. 
Agricultural lands. 
Sec. 506, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906 (84 Stat. 233) 
The Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is 
hereby authorized, upon application or otherwise, to examine and 
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