Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-08-19

The Regulations Promulgated by Commits
sioner Sparks.


The following rules and regulations
governing the removal of timber from the
public lands have been promulgated from
the interior department: By virtue or
the power vested in the secretary of the
interior by the first section of the act OF
June g. 1878, entitled San act authorizing
the citizens of Colorado Nevada, and the
territories to fell and remove timber ON
the public domain for mining and domes-
tic purposes the following rules and reg
ulations are hereby prescribed;
/. The act applies only TO the states OF
Colorado, 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 removed under the provisions of the
act, must be known to be of strictly min
eral character and that IL Is mot subject
to entry under existing laws OF the United
States except for mineral entry"
3. No person not citizen or bona hde
resident of a state, territory, or other min
eral district, provided for in said act Is
permitted to fell or remove timber from
mineral lands therein. And no person,
firm or corporation Telling or removing
timber under this act shall sell or dispose
OF the same to any other than citizens and
bona fide residents of the state or terri
tory where such timber Is cut, nor for any
other purpose than for the legitimate use
OF Sal0 purchaser LOT ING purposes Hti-
toned in said act.
4. Every owner or manager of a 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 or
the work, and describing the land whence
cut by legal subdivisions IL surveyed. and
as near as practicable IL not surveyed, with
a statement of the evidence upon which it
is claimed that the land is mineral in char
acter, and stating also the kind and guam
tiny 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 same shall not be
used except for building, agricultural,
mining or other domestic purposes within
the state or territory, and every such pur-
chaser shall further 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, re-
moving and selling such timber or lumber,
required to be kept as above mentioned,
shall at all times be subject to the inspec-
tion of the officers and agents or this de-
pdftmenU. -
6. Timber felled or removed shall be
strictly limited to building, agricultural,
mining and other domestic purposes, with
in the state or territory where 1T grew.
All cutting of such timber for use outside
of the state or territory where the same IL
cut and all removals thereof outside OF
the state or territory where 1T is cut, are
forbidden.
z. No person will be permitted to fell or
remove any growing trees OF any KIND
whatsoever, less than eight inches In
diameter.
0. Persons removing timber from public
mineral lands of the United States must
utilize all of each tree cut that can be pro-
fitably 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 pro-
vides as follows:
SEC. 8. Any person or persons who shall
violate the provisions of this act or any
rules and regulations in pursuance thereof
made by the secretary OF the interior shall
he deemed guilty OF "a misdemeanor, 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"
9. These rules and regulations shall take
effect Sept. /, 1886, and all existing rules
and regulations heretofore prescribed
under said act inconsistent herewith are
hereby revoked.
WILLIAM A. J. SPARKS, Commissioner.
l.. Q. G. LAMAR, Secretary.