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

Rules and Regulations Governing, and
the Text of the Law Under Which
4 They ere Prescribed.
Continued From Last Week.
The text of the law under which the
rules and regulations are prescribed ia
as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate aed House
Of Representatives of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated, for the objects
hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and ninety eight, namely:
For the survey of the public lands
that have been or may hereafter be
designated as forest reserves by Execu-
tive proclamation. under section twenty
four Of the act Of congress approved
March third, eighteen hundred and
nlLety-one, entitled IAN act 10 repeal
timber-culture laws, and for other pur-
poses" and including public lands ad-
tjacent thereto, which may be designated
for survey by the Secretary Of the In
terror, one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, TO be Immediately available
| Provided, That TO remove any doubt
which may exist pertaining TO the au-
thority Of the President thereunto, the
| President Of the United States is hereby
authorized and empowered to revoke,
modify, or suspend any and all such
! Executive orders and proClamations, or
any part thereof, from time to time as
he shall deem best for the public in.
terests: Provided, That the Executive
| orders and prOClamations dated Febru-
| airy twenty second, eighteen hundred
and ninety-seyen, setting apart and re-
serving certain lands in The States of
| Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Washington,
Idaho, and South Dakota as forest reser-
vations, be, and they are hereby, sus
pended, and the lands embraced therein |
restored to the public domain the same |
as though said orders and proclamations !
had not been issued Provided further, !
That lands embraced in such reserva-
tions not otherwise disposed of before I
March first, eighteen hundred and /
ninety eight, shall again become subject /
TO the operations of said orders and /
proclamations as now existing or here
after 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 rs may be en-
ployed 10y or under him for that purpose,
aud shall be executed under instructions
issued by the Secretary of the Interior
and il fsubdiyision surveys shall bc found .
necessary, they shall be executed under
the rectangular system. rs now provided
by law. The plats and field notes pre-
pared shall be approved and certified TO
by the Director of the Geological sur.
- a MI "a Of In na.il
shall be returned, one for the files in the
United States surveyor generals office
of the State in which the reserve is
situated, the other in the General Land |
Office and twenty photoiithographic
copies Of the plats shall be returned, one
copy for TIE files in the United |
states surveyor generars once or the I
State in which the reserve is situated;
the original plat and the other copies
shall be filed in the General Land office.
and shall have the facsimile Signature Of /
the Director OF the Survey attached.
Such surveys, field notes, and plats
thus returned shall haye the same legal |
force and effect as he etoiore given the
surveys field notes, and plats returned
through the surveyor general and such
surveys, hich include subdivision snr.
veys under the rectangular system, shall
be approved by the Commissioner ofthe
General Land Office rs in other cases,
and properly certified copies thereof!
shall be filed in the respective land |
offices of the district in which such |
lands are situated as in other cases. All |
laws inconsistent with the provisions
hereof are hereby declared imperative |
as respects such surveys: Provided |
however, That copy of every topo |
graphic map and other maps showing !
the distribution of the forests, together |
with such field notes as may be taken |
relating thereto, shall be certified there
to 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 third, eighteen |
hundred and ninety. one, the orders for |
which shall be and remain in full force |
and effect, nnsuspended and unreyoked, |
and all public lands that may hereafter /
be set aside and reserved as public tor
est reserves under said act. shall be as |
far as practicable controlled and admin |
istered liz accordance with the follow |
ing provisions:
No public forest reservation shall be |
established, except to improve and pro- |
tect the forest within the reservation. or
for the purpose of securing favorable |
conditions of water flows, and to furnish !
continuous supply of timber for the |
use and necessities Of citizens of the |
United states; out it is rot the purpose !
or intent of these provisions. or of the |
act providing for such reservations, 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 depreda-
tions upon the public forests and forest
reservations which may have been set
aside or which may be hereafter set
aside under the said act of March third,
eighteen hundred and ninety -one, and
which may be continued and he may
make such rules 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 de-
struction; and any violations of the
provisions OF this act or such rules and
regulations shall be punished as is pro
vided for in the act of June fourth.
eighteen hundred and eighty eight.
amending section fifty.three hundred
| and eiphty-eiph of the Rayised Statnte.