The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-02
FORESTRY AMENDMENT.
Agreed to by Confcrecs ON the sum
dry Civil BilI

agreed to by COnfcrecs ON the SUR.
dry Civil Dill.
The committee on conference recon-
mended that the house recede from Its
disagreement to the amendment OF the
senate numbered is, and agree to the same
with an amendment as follows:
In lieu OF the matter inserted by said
amendment insert the following.
For the survey of the public lands that
nave been or may hereafter be designaf ed
tion. under section "a Of the act OF con-
gress approved March g. 1881, entitled An
act TO repeal timber culture laws and for
other purposes and including public lands
adjacent thereto. which may be designated
Ior survey by the secretary of the interior.
$l50,o0 to be Immediately available: pro-
vced, that TO remove any doubt which
may exist pertaining TO the authority OF
the president. tiiereunto. the president OF
the United States Is hereby authorized and
empowered to revoke. modify, or suspend
proclamations, CT any part thereof, from
time to time as he shall deem best for the
puelfe interests: provided. that the execu-
sa,ary 2. 1881. setting apart and reserv-
Ing certain lands IN the states OF wyoming,
ltah, Montana, Washington, Idaho and
south Dakota as forest reservations, be.
and they are hereby. suspended, and the
lands embraced therein restored to the
public domain the same as though said or
ders and proc,amations had not been is
Graced in such reservations not otherwise
disposed of before March /, 1898. shall again
become subject 20 the operations of said
oruers and proclaInattonS as now existing
or hereafter modified by the president.
The surveys herein provided for shall
be made, under the supervision OF the d.
rector OF the geological survey. by such per-
son or persons as may be employed by or
under aim for that purpose, and shall be
executed under Instructions issued by the
secretary OF the interior; and II suodsyi-
k3l n he IN ho g.
sSl-y. they shall be executed under the rec
tangIiar system, as now provided by law.
approved and certified TO by the director
Of the geological survey. and two copies Of
the field notes shall be returned, one for
the fies OF the United States surveyor gen
erals office OF the state in which the re-
serve II situated. the other In the general
land offsce; and twenty phc;o-hfnograpnl
copies of the plats shsa be returned. one
copy for the files In tie United States sEr-
Seyor generals office OF the state in which
the reserve - situated the original plat
and the other copies snail be filed la the
general land Office, and shall have the fac
smile signature Of the director Of the sur
vsys attached.
.'Sssca surveys field notes. and pIats thus
returned shall have the same legal force
field notes aud plals rct1rned through she
surveyors general: and sEcn surveys
whtcsl izcIsnie subdivision surveys under
the rectangular system shall be approved
BY the commissioner or the general land
Office as IN other cases and properly csrs.-
led copies thereof shall be flied In the re-
spectiyc lana Offices Of the districts in
which such lands are situated. as tn other
cases. All laws INCONSISTENT with the pro-
visions hereof aro hereby declared tnop-
erativs as Respects such surveys: provided.
however. that a copy Of every ;opogra phic
gyl2p and other maps showing the 1lssrihu-
ton OF the forests. together with such
sssid .sotsss as mar be taken relating there
co. shall be certified thereto By the director
OF the survey and aled n iae general Land
Office.
aAn putsbc hands heretofore designated
ana reese rived By the president OF tas United
States unstsr the provisions o. the act APP
proved March 3, iEsl. the orders Tor which
feet unsssspended ana unrevoxed. and all
public lands thai may hereafter he SO
eszaa and reserved as pubic forest reserves
srysser said Act shall Ne as far a. practical
Bile controlled and Administered IN accord
arce with The following provisions.
No public forest reservation shall b c.