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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2. 1897. 35 third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the orders for which shall be and remain in full force and eifect, 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 w,f;{¤¤€;¤g;V¤;;g;g; and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of usueu. securing favorable conditions of water Hows, 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. The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protec— “ftgg;i¤i°¤¤i:°{ gg • tion against destruction by tire and depredations upon the public for- sa. °ga ° ’ ests 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 ,,,}:1*;*** Md 1'°8¤l¤· insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occu— ' pancy 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 $*;;*;*5*Y;) 166 ‘ fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty- R.S.;sec.d388,`?p.1044. three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. For the purpose of preserving the living and growing timber and Timber. promoting the younger growth on forest reservations, the Secretary of ,;’§£§,'§'f‘,.§°g'f,{ “”d °°1° the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause to be designated and appraised so much of the dead, matured, or large growth of trees found upon such forest·reservations as may be compatible with the utilization of the forests thereon, and may sell the same for not less than the appraised value in such quantities to each purchaser as he 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 Nome of ¤·1¤· notice thereof shall be 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 not, then in a newspaper of general circulation published nearest to the reservation, 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 m£,:!¤¤·¤*¤· b°" 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 C¤*¤¤s¤¤¤¤*¤¤°"¤l· 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 or 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 bUsj;&fr:*¤g;°'· °'·°» prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone found upon such reser· y` vations, free of charge, by bona tide settlers, miners, residents, and prospcctors for minerals, for iirewood, 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.