Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-03-19

| notice tnereO1 snail Dc given by TIT
Commissioner of the General Lane
Office, for not less than sixty days, BY
publication in newspaper of genera
circu lation, published in the county ir
which the timber is Situated, if any
is thereia published, aud if not
then in newspaper of general circula
ton published nearest to the reserva
ton, and also In newspaper Of genera
circulation published at the capital o.
the State or Territory where such reser
yation exists payment for such timber
to be made to the receiver of the loca
land Office Of the district wherein said
timber may be sold, under such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the
Interior may prescribe and the non.
eys arising therefrom shall be accounted
for by the receiver of such land office to
the Commissioner of the General Land
office, in separate account, and shall
| he covered into the Treasury. Such
timber, before being sold, shall be mark
ed and designated, and shall be cut and
removed under the supervision of some
person appointed for t.. purpose by
the Secretary of the Interior, not inter.
ested IN the purchase or removal Of such
timber nor in the employment of the
purchaser thereof Such supervisor
shall make report in writing to the Com
missioner 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 prescrib-
ed by him, the use of timber and stone
found upon such reservations. free of
charge, by bona fde settlers, miners,
residents, and prospeCtors for minerals,
for tirewoOd, fencing, buildings, mining,
prospecting, and other domestic pur.
poses, as may be needed by such per-
sons 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 and ingress of ac
tual settlers residing within the bound
aries Of such reservations, or from cross.
ing the same to and 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 prop
erty under such rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of
the Interior. Nor shall anything herein
prohibit any person from entering upon
such forest reservations for all proper
and lawful purposes, including that of
prospecting, locating, and developing
the mineral resources thereof: Provid.
cd, That such persons comply with the
rules and regulations covering such for
est reservations.
That in cases in which tract covered
by an unprotected bona fide claim or by
patent is included within the limits of
public forest reservation, the settler or
owner thereof may, if he desires TO dc
so, relinquish the tract to the govern
rnent, and may select in lieu thereof
tract of vacant land open to settlement
not exceeding in area the tract covered
by his claim or patent and no charge
shall ha made in such cases for making
the entry of record or issuing the patent
to cover the tract selected: Provided
further, That in cases of unprotected
claims the requirements Of the laws re.
speCting settlement, residence, improve
ments. 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 reserya-
tions, or in the vicinity thereof, may
maintain schools and churches within
such reservation, or for that purpose
may occupy any part of said forest reser-
vation, not exceeding two acres for each
school house and one acre for church.
The jurisdiction, both civil and crimi
nal, over persons within such reserva-
L., 4 a
reason of the existence Of such reserva.
tions, except so far as the punishment
of offenses against the United States
therein is concerned the intent and
meaning Of this provision being that
the State wherein any such reservation
is situated shall not, by reason of the
establishment thereof, lose its jurisdic-
ton, nor the inhabitants thereof their
rights and privileges as citizens, or be
absolved 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 reserva-
tions are situated, or under the laws of
the United States and the rules and reg
ulations established hereunder.
Upon the recommendations of the Sec
retary Of the Interior, with the approval
of the President, after sixty days notice
thereof, published in two papers of gen-
era circulation i'm the State or Territory
wherein any forest reservation is situat
ed, and near the said reservation, any
public lands embraced within the limits
of any forest reservation which, after
due examination by personal inspection
of a competent person appointed for that
purpose by the Secretary ofthe Interior,
shall be found better adapted for mining
or for agricultural 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 APP
plying thereto, shall continue to be sub
ect to such location and entry notwith-
standing any provisions herein con-
tanned.
The President is hereby authorized at
any time to m odify any Executive order
that has been or may hereafter be made
establishing any forest reserve, and by
such modification may reduce the area
or change the boundary lines of such
reserve, or may vacate altogether any
order creating such reserve
Approved, June 4, 1897.
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