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of the laws respecting settlement, residence, improvements, and so forth, are complied with on the new claims, 

 credit being allowed for the time spent on the relinquished claims. 



The settlers residing within the exterior boundaries of such forest reservations, or in the vicinity thereof* may 

 maintain schools and churches within such reservation, and for that purpose may occupy any part of the said forest 

 reservation, not exceeding two acres for each schoolhouse and one acre for a church. 



The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within such reservations shall not be affected or 

 changed by reason of the existence of such reservations, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the 

 United States therein is concerned; the intent and meaning of this provision being that the State wherein any 

 such reservation is situated shall not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor the 

 inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens, or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. 



All waters on such reservations may be used for domestic, mining, milling, or irrigation purposes, under the 

 laws of the State wherein such forest reservations are situated, or under the laws of the United States and the rules 

 and regulations established thereunder. 



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 general circulation in the State or Territory wherein any foiest 

 reservation is situated, and near the said reservation, any public lands embraced within the limits of any forest 

 reseivation 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, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwith- 

 standing any provisions herein contained. 



The President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any Executive order that has been or may hereafter 

 be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines 

 of such reserve, or may vacate altogether any order creating such reserve. 



AIST ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses, etc , approved June 30, 1898. 



Protection and administration of forest reserves. — To meet the expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry 

 civil act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest 

 reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, and for the employment of foresters and other 

 emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for 

 sale within such reservations : Providedj That forestry agents and supervisors, and other persons to be designated by 

 the Secretary of the Interior for duty under this appropriation, shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and 

 regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual 

 necessary expenses for transportation, seventy-five thousand dollars. 



That section eight of an act entitled "An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," 

 approved March third, eighteen hundred and nmety-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows : That it 

 shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to grant permits, under the provisions of the eighth section of the 

 act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to citizens of Idaho and Wyoming to cut timber in the State 

 of Wyoming west of the continental divide, on the Snake River and its tributaries, to the boundary line of Idaho, 

 for agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, and to remove the timber so cut to the State of Idaho. 



