Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-12
FORESTRY REsERvE.
Complete Report of Conference Commit
tee Revoking Cleveland's For
estry Proclamation,

FORESTRY RESERVE.
Complete Report of Conference Commit
tee Revoking Cleveland's For
estry Proclamation.
Following is the bill agreed upon by
the senate and house conferees upon
certain amendments to the sundry civil
service bill relating to the forestry
reserve order, which bill was passed,
and is now law:
For the survey Of the public lands
that have been or may hereafter be
designated as forest reserves by execu
tive proclamation, under section "a OF
the act of congress approved March 3,
1891, entitled AN act to repeal timber
culture laws, and for other purposes"
and including public lands adjacent
thereto, which may be designated for
survey by the secretary of the interior,
$l50,000, to be Immediately available:
Provided, That to remove any doubt
which may exist pertaining to the au-
thority Of the president therennto, the
president Of the United States is hereby
authorized and empowered to revoke,
modify, or suspend any and all such
any part thereof, from time to time as
he shall deem best for the public inter-
ests: Provided, That the executive
orders and proclamations dated Febru-
airy %, 1897, setting apart and reserving
certain lands in the states of Wyoming
Utah, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and
South Dakota as forest reservations, be,
and they are hereby, suspended, and
the lands embraced therein restored 10
the public domain the same rs though
said orders and proclamations had not
been issued: Provided further, That
lands embraced in such reservations not
otherwise disposed of before March /,
1898 shall again become subject to the
operations of said orders and procla-
nations as are now existing or hereaf-
ter modified by the president.
The surveys herein provided for shall
be made, under the supervision of the
director of the geological survey, by such
person or persons as may be employed
by or under him for that purpose, and
shall be executed under instructions is
sued by the secretary Of the interior.
and if subdivision surveys shall be
found to be necessary, they shall be exc.
cuted under the rectangular system, as
now provided by law. The plats and
field notes prepared shall be approved
and certified to by the director of the
geological survey, and two copies of the
field notes shall be returned, one for the
files in the United States surveyor gen.
erals Office Of the state ia which the
reserve is situated, the other in the
general land Office and twenty photo
lithographic copies of the plates shall
be returned, one copy for the files in the
United States surveyor generals office
Of the state in which the reserve is sit
uated the original plat and the other
copies shall be filed in the general land
Office, and shall have the fac-simile sig
nature of the director Of the survey at
tached.
Such surveys, field notes, and plats thus
returned shall have the same legal force
and effect as heretofore given the sur
veys, field notes, and plats returned
through the survey ors-general ;and such
surveys, which include subdivision sur
veys under the rectangular system, shall
be approved by the commissioner ofthe
general land Office as in other cases, and
properly certified copies thereof shall be
filed in the respective land offices of the
districts in which such lands are stu
ated. as in other cases. All laws in
consistent with the provisions hereof
are hereby declared imperative as
respects such survey: Provided, how
ever, That a copy of every topographic
map and other maps showing the
distribution Of the forests, together with
such field notes as may be taken relating
thereto, shall be certified thereto by the
director of the survey and filed in the
general land office.
All public lands heretofore designated
and reserved by the president of the
United States under the provisions of
the act approved March 3, 1891, the
orders for which shall be and remain in
full force and effect, unsuspended and
revoked, and all public lands that msy
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 reserya-
ton, or for the purpose of securing ia
vorable conditions of water flows, and
to furnish continuous supply of timber
for the use and necessities of citizens of
WIG CHitSu StdtCe, UuL ~ 10 hOt THO
purpose or intent of these provisions or
of the act providing for such reserya-
tions 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 deprs-
dations upon the public forests and for
est reservations which may have been
| set aside OF which may be hereafter set
aside under the said act of March 3,
| 1891, and which may be continued and
he may make such ruleA and regulations
and establish such service as will 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 snch rules and
regulations shall be punished as is
provided for in the act of June 4, 1888,
amending section 53SS Of the Revised d
Statutes of the United States.
For the purpose of preserving the
living and growing timber and pro.
noting the younger growth on forest
reservations. the secretary of the in.
terror, under such rules and regulations
as he shall prescribe, may cause to be
designated and appraised so much of
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 pur
chaser as he shall prescribe, to be used
in the State and Territory in which
such timber reservation may be situated
respectively, but not for export there
from. Before such sale shall take place,
notice thereof shall be giyen by the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office for not less than sixty days, by
publication in 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 pub
lished nearest to the reservation, and
also in newspaper of general circula-
tion published at the capital of the State
or Territory where such reservation ex-