The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-07
Lists Of the Presidents Nominees Whose Cases
We're Not Acted On By the Senate, and
of Those Who We're Rejected.
How the Secretary of the Interior Sc
cured the Passage of a Bill.
The Capital Assuming Its Customary Summer
Aspect-How the 0leomargarine Bill
Will Help the Dairymen-Notes.
UNCLE SANS WOODLAND.
Revised Rules for the Cutting of Timber
from the Public Domain.

Revised Rules for the Cutting of Timber
from the Public Domain.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The following rules
and regulations governing the removal Of timber
from the public lands, were promulgated from
the Interior Department to day:
By virtue of the power vested in the Secre-
tary of the Interior by the first section of the
act of June 8, 1875 entitled. IAN act authorizing
the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Terri
tories to fell and remove timber off the public
domain for mining and domestic purposes the
following rules and regulations are hereby pre-
scribed:
/. The act applies only to the States of Col
orado and Nevada, and to the Territories Of
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah. Wyoming, Dakota,
Idaho and Montana, and other mineral districts
OF the United States not specially provided for.
2. The land from which timber is felled or re-
moved under the provisions of the act must be
known to be OF strictly mineral character. and
that it is mot subject to entry under existing
laws of the United States, except for mineral
entry
3. 'No person not a citizen or bona fide resi-
dent of State, Territory or other mineral dis
rict provided for in said act, is permitted TO fell
or remove on mineral lands therein. Aud no
person, firm or corporation telling or removing
timber under this act shall sell of dispose of the
same, or the lumber manufactured therefrom, to
OF the State or Territory where such timber is cut,
nor for any other purpose than for the iegiti-
mate use of said purchaser for the purposes men
toned in said act
4. Every owner OF manager of saw mill, or
other person telling or removing timber under
the provisions of this act shall keep record of
all timber SO cut or removed, stating time when
cut, names of parties cutting the same or IN
charge of the work and describing the land
whence cut by legal subdivisions if surveyed.
and as icahlo cd Will
a statement of the evidence upon which it is
claimed that the land is mineral in character,
and stating also the kind and quantity of lumber
manufactured therefrom, together with the
names OF parties to whom any such timber or
lumber is sold, dates of sale and the purpose for
which sold, and shall not sell or dispose of such
timber or lumber made from such timber
without taking from the purchaser writ
ten agreement that the shall not
be used except for building, agricultural. mining
or other domestic purposes within the State or
Territory; and every such purchaser alfsArther
be required to file with said owner or manager a
certificate, under oath, that he purchases such
timber or lumber exclusively for his own use
and for the purposes aforesaid.
8. The books. files and records of all the mill
men or other persons so cutting, removing and
selling such timber or lumber, required to be
kept as above mentioned, shall at all times be
subject to the inspection Of the officers and
agents of this department.
6. Timber felled or removed shall be strictly
limited TO building. agricultural, mining and
other domestic purposes within the State or
Territory where it grew. All cutting of such
timber for use outside of the State or Territory
where the same is cut. and all removals thereof
outside of the State or Territory where it is cut,
are forbidden.
7. No person will be permitted to fell or re-
move any growing trees of any kind whatso-
ever less than eight inches in diameter.
g. Persons telling removing timber from
public mineral lands of the United States must
utilize all Of each tree cut that be pro6tably
used, and must cut and remove the tops and
brush, or dispose of the same in such manner as
to prevent the spread of forest fires The act
under which these rules and regulations were
prescribed provides as follows: Section g. Any
person persons who shall violate the pro-
visions Of this act, or any rules and regulations
in pursuance thereof made by the Secretary of
the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction shall be fined in
any sum not exceeding $500. and to which may
be added Imprisonment for any term not ex-
ceeding six months"
g. These rules and regulations shall take
effect Sept l, 1886, and ali existing rules and
regulations heretofore prescribed under said act,
inconsistent herewith are hereby revoked.
WIN. A. j. SPARKS, Commissioner.
Approved. Aug. 5, 1885, L. @. C. LAMAR, Sec.