Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-12

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 pre-
scribed by him, the use Of timber and
stone found upon such reservations,
free Of charge. by bona fide settlers,
miners, residents. and prospectors for
minerals, for frewood, fencing, build
| ings, 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.
Nothing herein shall be construed as
prohibiting the egress or ingress Of
actual settlers residing within the
boundaries Of such reservations, or
from crossing the same TO or 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 regula-
tions as may be prescribed By the Secre-
h:ary ofthe Interior. Nor shall anything
herein prohibit any person from enter
ing upon such forest reservations for all
proper and lawful purposes. including
that of prospecting, locating and devel-
oping the mineral resources thereof;
Provided, That such persons comply
with the rules and regulations covering
such forest reservations.
That in cases in which q tract COW
cred by an unprotected bona fide claim
or by a patent is included within the
limits ofa public forest reservation, the
settler or owner thereof may, if he
desires TO do SO, relinquish the tract 10
the Government, and may select in lieu
thereof a tract Of vacant land open TO
settlement not exceeding in area the
tract covered by his claim or patent;
and no charge shall be made in such
cases for making the entry Of record or
issuing the patent TO cover the tract
selected; Provided further, That in case
Of unprotected claims the requirements
Of the laws respecting settlement, resi-
dence, improvements, and so forth, are
complied with on the new claims, credit
being allowed for the time spent on the
relinquished claims.
The settlers residing within the ex-
terror boundaries of such forest reser-
vations, or in the vicinity thereof. may
maintain schools and churches within
such reservation, not exceeding two
acres for each school hause and one
acre for church.
The jurisdiction, both civil and Grim
inal, oyer persons within such reser-
vations shall not be affected or changed
by reason of the existence ofsuch reser-
vations, except so far as the punishment
Of offences against the United States
therein is concerned the extent and
meaning Of this provision being that
the State wherein any such reservation
is situated shall not, by reason Of the
establishing thereof, lose its jurisdiction,
nor the inhabitants thereof their rights
and privileges as citizens, or be alb
solved from their duties as citizens Of
the State.
All waters on such reservations may
be used for domestic, mining, milling,
or irrigation purposes, under the laws
of the State wherein such forest reser-
vations are situated, or under the laws
Of the United States and the rules and
regulations established hereunder.
Upon the recommendation Of the
Secretary of the Interior, with the ap-
proval Of the President, after sixty 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 reserva-
tion any public lands embraced within
the limits of any forest reservation
which, after due examination by per-
sonal inspection of competent person
appointed for that purpose by the Secre-
tary of the Interior, shall be found
better adapted for mining or for agricul-
tural 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 con-
tinue to be subject to such location and
entry. notwithstanding any provisions
herein contained.