Also see "Timber". FOREST RESERVES. For homesteads within forest reserves, see "Homesteads' Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 34)—Established only to protect Act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat., 1271)-Further reservations only Act of August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 287)-Agricultural lands to be Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat., 1101)-Permits for summer homes, hotels, etc... 72 The following are the principal acts directly affecting lands within the National Forests: An Act To repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes. * * * * * SEC. 24. That the President of the United States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such reservation and the limits thereof.1 Approved, March 3, 1891 (26 Stat., 1103). Extracts from the sundry civil appropriation act, approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 34, 35, 36). Forest reservations. All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by Forest lands. 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: tions, when to be No public forest reservation shall be established, except Forest reservato improve and protect the forests within the reservation, established. or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of 1 See act of March 4, 1907. Egress and ingress of settlers tions, etc. water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the 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. * * * * Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the within reserva- 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 be constructed thereon as may be necessary to reach their homes and to utilize 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. Restoration of mineral or agri main. * * * * * Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Incultural lands to terior, with the approval of the President, after sixty the public do- days' notice thereof, published in two papers of general circulation in the State or Territory wherein any forest reservation is situated, 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, shall continue to be subject to such location and entry, notwithstanding any provisions herein contained. The President is hereby authorized at any time to ecutive order, etc. 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. President may modify any Ex Control of forest reserves trans An Act Providing for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ferred to Agricul- of the United States of America in Congress assembled, tural Depart- That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and after the passage of this act, execute or ment. |