64 FOKEST KESERVES IN IDAHO. 



United States Department of Agriculture. 



Office of the Secretary. 

 WasJiingto)i, D. C, Fehruary 1. 1905. 

 The Forester. 



Forest Service. 

 Sir: The President has attached his signature to the following act: 



AN ACT Providing for tlie transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior 

 to the Department of Agriculture. 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America in Congress asseniJ>lcd. That 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 un- 

 der 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 supplemental to and amendatory thereof, after 

 such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, 

 prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certi- 

 fying, or patenting of any such lands. 



Sec. 2. That pulp wood or wood pulp manufactured from timber in the district 

 of Alaska may be exported therefrom. 



Sec 3. That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, 

 from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the said reserves, 

 respectively, are situated. 



Sec. 4. That rights of way for the construction and maintenance of dams, res- 

 ervoirs, water plants, ditches, flumes, pipes, tunnels, and canals, within and 

 across the forest reserves of the T'nited Statjes, are hereby granted to citizens 

 and corporations of the United States for nuinicipal or mining purposes, and for 

 the purposes of the milling and reduction of ores, during the period of their 

 beneficial use, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the 

 Secretary of the Interior and subject to the laws of the State or Territory in 

 which said reserves are respectively situated. 



Sec 5. That all money received from the sale of any products or the use of 

 any land or resources of said forest reserves shall be covered into the Treasury 

 of the United States, and for a period of five years from the passage of this act 

 shall constitute a special fund available, until expended, as the Secretary of 

 Agriculture may direct, for the protection, administration, improvement, and 

 extension of Federal forest reserves. 



Approved, February 1. 1905. 



By this act the administration of the Federal forest reserves is transferred 

 to this Department. Its provisions will be carried out through the Forest 

 Service, under your immediate supervision. You have already tentatively ne- 

 gotiated the transfer with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, whose 

 powers and duties thus transferred I assign to you. Until otherwise instructed, 

 you will submit to me for approval all questions of organization, sales, permits, 

 and privileges, except such as are entrusted by the present regulations to field 

 officers on the ground. All officers of the forest reserve service transferred will 

 be subject to your instructions and will report directly to you. You will at 

 once issue to them the necessary notice to this effect. 



In order to facilitate the pronq)t transaction of business upon the forest re- 

 serves and to give effect to the general policy outlined below, you are instructed 

 to recommend at the earliest practicable date whatever changes may be necessary 

 in the rules and regulations governing the reserves, so that I may. in accordance 

 with the provisions of the above act. delegate to you and to forest reserve offi- 

 cers in the field so much of my authority as may be essential to the i)rompt 

 transaction of l»usiness and to the administration of the reserves in accordance 

 with local needs. T'^ntil such revision is made the present rules and regulations 

 will remain in force, except those relating to the receipt and transmittal of 

 moneys, in which case special fiscal agents of this Department will perform the 

 duties heretofore rendered by the receivers of local land offices in accordance 

 with existing laws and regulations. The chief of records. Forest Service, is 

 hereby designated a special fiscal agent, and .vou will direct him at once to exe- 

 cute and submit for my approval a bond for $20,000. 



