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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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 Senate 2496 . 



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50th, 1st sess. 



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Object of bill. 



To amend act of 1878, so as to allow any one in Western 

 States and Territories to remove timber from mineral 

 lands for any purpose, under rules and regulations of the 

 Secretary ot the Interior and payment of $2.50 per acre 

 for the timber. No timber to be cut by mill owners or 

 lumber manufacturers. 



For the preservation of woods and forests adjacent to 

 sources of navigable rivers. Same as bill introduced in 

 House, Firbt session, Forty-fourth Congress. 



For the preservation of woods, etc. Same as Senate bill 

 next above. 



To provide for the classification and disposition of pine- 

 timber lands. Such lands, chiefly valuable for their tim- 

 ber, not to be subject to preemption or homestead entry, 

 but to be appraised by the Secretary of the Interior, and 

 sold from time to time at public sale, for not less than 

 two-thirds the appraisement. Mineral lands exempt from 

 the act. 



To regulate the sale of the timber lands of the United 

 States. Similar to last bill above, but lands remaining 

 unsold to be subject to private entry at the appraised 

 value. 



For the protection and preservation of the forests of the 

 United States. One hundred thousand dollars to be 

 appropriated to Colorado for the establishment of an 

 experiment station under the direction of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Act to exclude the public lands in Alabama from the oper- 

 ation of laws relating to mineral lands. (In reality an 

 act to sell all mineral lands in Alabama as agricultural 

 lands, at private sale, in unlimited quantities, an.d at the 

 reduced rate of $1.L'5 per acre, to citizens or aliens.) 



For the classification and disposition of pine- timber lands. 

 Same as above bill presented in Forty-seventh Congress. 



For the preservation of woods and forests adjacent to 

 sources of navigable rivers, etc. Same as bill in Forty- 

 seventh Congress. 



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To prevent cutting of timber on military or Indian reserva- 

 tions. 



For the protection, preservation, and extension of the for- 

 ests of the United States. To establish an experiment 

 station in connection with the Department of Agricul- 

 ture west of the Mississippi Eiver. To propagate and 

 distribute forest trees, investigate qualities, time of 

 growing, profit, etc. One hundred thousand dollars ap- 

 propriated. 



Act to establish a forest reservation on the head waters of 

 the Missouri and Columbia Eivers. 



For the protection of forests on the public domain. "With- 

 draws all tiniber land from sale under existing laws. 

 Forest commission to be appointed to examine and class- 

 ify forest lands and determine what should be perma- 

 nently reserved. Timber on reserved lands to be sold 

 under diiection of the Commissioner of the Land Office. 



To establish a forest reservation in Montana. Same as bill 

 S. 1824, in Forty-eighth Congress. 



To repeal act of 1878 for the sale of timber lands in Cali- 



fornia, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory. 

 For the preservation of woods and forests adjacent to 



sources of navigable rivers, etc. Same as bill offered in 



Forty-eighth Congress. 



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To define and punish the offense of setting fire to woods or 



forests belonging to the United States. 



For the protection of forests in California. To withdraw 

 from sale Government forest lands in California not 

 suited to agriculture. Such lands not to be alienated 

 from the Government, but to be placed temporarily under 

 the management of the forest commissioners of Califor- 

 nia. Fifty thousand dollars appropriated to carry out 

 the act. 



To set apart from the public domain in the Stato of Ore- 

 gon, as a public park for the benefit of the people of the 

 United States, townships 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31, in ranges 

 5 and 6 east of the Willamette meridian, in the State of 

 Oregon. 



To cancel certain reservations of lands on account of live 

 oak in the southwestern land district of the State of 

 Louisiana. 



To establish a forest reservation on the headwaters of the 

 Missouri Eiver and the headwaters of Clarks Fork of the 

 Columbia Eiver. 



For the preservation of the woods and forests of the 

 national domain adjacent to the sources of the naviga- 

 ble rivers and their affluents in the United States. 



Action taken. 



Eeferred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agriculture. 



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Eeferred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. 





Eeferred to Committee on Appropria- 

 tions. 



Approved by the President March 3, 

 1883. 



Eeferred to Committee on Public 



Lands. 

 Eeferred to Committee on Agriculture. 



Do. 



Eeferred to Committee on Indian Af- 

 fairs. Passed in Senate April 23 ; in 

 House of Eepresentatives referred 

 to Committee on Indian Affairs. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry. 



Passed Senate June, 1884. In House 

 printed. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agricul- 

 ture. Eeported favorably. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agricul- 

 ture. Eeported favorably. Passed 

 Senate. In House on calendar. 



Eeferred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agriculture. 



Do. 



Eeferred to Committee on Judiciary. 

 Eeported at second session, with 

 amendments, and placed on the Cal- 

 endar. 



Eeferred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Eeported favorably . 



Eeported back adversely and indefi- 

 nitely postponed. 



Eeferred to Committee on Public 

 Lands. Eeported back. Passed Sen- 

 ate. Eeferred to House Committee 

 on Public Lands. Eeported back. 

 Amended and passed House. Sen- 

 ate concurs in House amendment. 

 Examined and signed. Approved 

 by President. 



Eeferred to Committee on Agriculture 

 and Forestry. 



Do. 



