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the other in the General Land Office; and twenty photolithographic copies of the plats shall be returned, one copy 

 for tho files in the United States surveyor-general's office of the State in which the reserve is situated ; the original 

 plat and the other copies shall he filed in the General Land Office, and shall have the facsimile signature of the 

 Director of the Survey attached. 



Such surveys, field notes, and plats thus returned shall have the same legal force and effect as heretofore given 

 the surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the surveyors-general; and such surveys, which include subdi- 

 vision surveys under the rectangular system, shall be approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as in 

 other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective, land offices of the districts in which 

 such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby declared 

 inoperative as respects such survey : Provided, however, that a copy of every topographic map and other maps 

 showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be 

 certified thereto by the director of the survey and filed in the General Land Office. 



All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the President 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 unrevoked, and all public lands that may hereafter be set aside and reserved as 

 public forest reserves under said act, shall be as far as practicable controlled and administered in accordance with 

 the following provisions: 



No public forest reservation shall be established except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, 

 or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for 

 the use and necessities of citizens of tho United States ; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of 

 the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral 

 therein or for agricultural purposes than for forest purposes. 



The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protection against destruction by fire and depreda- 

 tions upon the public forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or which may be hereafter set 

 aside under the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he 

 may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will insure the objects of such reservations, 

 namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction; and any violation 

 of the provisions of this act or such rules and regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the act of June 

 fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Kevised 

 Statutes of the Uniied States. 



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 shall prescribe, may cause to bo 

 designated and appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest reserva- 

 tions as may be compatible with tho utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not less than the 

 appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser as ho shall prescribe, to be used in the State or Territory in 

 which such timber reservation may be situated, respectively, but not for export therefrom. Before such sale shall 

 take place, notice thereof shall bo 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 nob, then in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to tho reserva- 

 tion, 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 and removal of such timber nor in the 

 employment of the purchaser thereof. Such supervisor shall make 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. 



The Secretary of the Interior may permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber and 

 stone found upon such reservations, free of charge, by bona fide settlers, miners, residents, and prospectors for 

 minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and other domestic purposes, as may be needed by 

 such persons for such purposes; such timber to be used within the State or Territory, respectively, where such 

 reservations may be located. 



Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the egress or ingress of actual settlers residing within the 

 boundaries of such reservations, or from crossing the same to and from their property or homes ; and such wagon 

 roads and other improvements may bo constructed thereon as may be necessary to reach their homes and to uuilizo 

 their property, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. 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. 



That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the 

 limits of a public forest reservation, the settlor or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to 

 the Government, and may select in lieu thereof a tract of vacant land open to settlement, not exceeding in area the 

 tract covered by his claim or patent; and no charge shall be made in such cases for making the entry of record or 

 issuing the patent to cover the tract selected: Provided further, That in cases of unperfected claims the requirements 



