Regulations and Instructions for the Use of the National Forest Reserves

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - Forest reserves
 

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Page 266 - into effect, can not affect the right of the General Government to re[864]quire stock owners to restrain their stock from grazing on the national forest reserves except under prescribed regulations. 3. SAME. Ordinance No. 1, Const. Mont., providing that " the people inhabiting the said proposed State of Montana do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title
Page 270 - United States, and said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States." It is argued that from this latter provision, expressly acknowledging that the Indian land shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of Congress,
Page 234 - Damages. the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage. SEC. 20. That the provisions of this act shall apply to all canals, ditches, or reservoirs heretofore or corporate works
Page 214 - 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
Page 231 - y organized under the laws of any through public lands. State or Territory, except the District of Columbia, or by the Congress of the United States, which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent
Page 214 - llshed. favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the t'nited 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.
Page 226 - An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,'" approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten per centum hereafter reserved under the provisions of this act, and the timber upon said ten sections and upon
Page 214 - 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
Page 219 - shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, for the payment of the expenses of said investigations by the Forest Service and for
Page 252 - 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

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