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‘‘For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and promoting 
the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary of the Interior, under 
such rules and regulations as he shali prescribe, may cause to be designated and 
appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees found on such 
forest reservations as may be compatible with the proper 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, to be used in the State or Ter- 
ritory in which such timber reservation may be situated, respectively, but not 
for export therefrom. Before such sale shall take place, notice thereof shall be 
given by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for not less than sixty 
days, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the 
county in which the timber is situated, if any is therein published, and if not, 
then in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to the reservation, 
and also in a newspaper of general circulation published at the capital of the 
State or Territory where such reservation exists; payments for such timber to 
be made to the receiver of the local land office of the district wherein said timber 
may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior 
may prescribe; and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by the 
receiver of such land office to the Commissioner of the General Land Office in a 
separate account, and shall be covered into the Treasury. Such timber, before 
being sold, shall be marked and designated, and shall be cut and removed under 
the supervision of some person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of 
the Interior, not interested in the purchase or removal of such timber nor in the 
employment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make a report in 
writing to the Commissioner of the General Land Office and to the receiver in 
the land office in which such reservation shall be located of his doings in the 
premises. 
‘Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval 
of the President, after sixty days’ notice thereof, published in two papers of gen- 
eral circulation in the State or Territory wherein any forest reservation is situ- 
ated, and near the said reservation, any public lands embraced within the limits 
of any forest reservation which, after due examination by personal inspection of 
a competent person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, 
shall be found better adapted for mining or for agricultural purposes than for 
forest usage, may be restored to the public domain. And any mineral lands in 
any forest reservation which have been or which may be shown to be such, and | 
subject to entry under the existing mining laws of the United States and the 
rules and regulations applying thereto, shali continue to be subject to such loca- 
tion and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained.” 
The law authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to permit the use 
of timber and stone by bona fide settlers, miners, etc., for firewood, 
fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes. 
It protects the rights of actual settlers within the reservations, em- 
powers them to build wagon roads to their holdings, enables them 
to build schools and churches, and provides for the exchange of such 
for allotments outside the reservation limits. The State within which 
a reservation is located maintains its jurisdiction over all persons 
within the boundaries of the reserve. 
Under the above enactment, the Commissioner of the General Land 
Office has formulated rules and regulations for the forest reserva- 
tions, and a survey of the reserves last proclaimed is being made by 
the United States Geological Survey. 
B. E. FERNow, 
Chief of Division of Forestry. 
Approved: 
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary. 
WASHINGTON, December 15, 1897. 
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