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 W hich
They are Prescribed.
Continued From Last Week.)

Rules ana Regulations Governing, and
the Text of the Law Under w hich
They are Prescribed.
Continued From Last Week.)
The text of the law under which the
rules and regulations are prescribed il
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 aud 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
niLety-one, entitled IAN act 70 repeal
timber-culture laws, and for other pur-
poses" and including public lands ad-
| jacent 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-seven, 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
March first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-eignt, 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 he en-
ployed 10y or under him for that purpose,
and shall be executed under instructions
issued by the Secretary of the Interior
and difsubdivision If surveys shall be found
necessary, they shall be executed under
the rectangular system, as now provided
by law. The plats and field notes pre-
pared shall be approved and certified to
by the Director of the Geological sur.
vey, and two copies Of the field notes
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 photolithographic
copies Of the plats shall be returned, one
copy for tie files in the United
States surveyor generals Office OF the
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 sur
veys under the rectangular system, shall
be approved by the Commissioner the
General Land office as 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, unsuspended and unreyok ed,
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 in 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
Il continuous supply of timber for the
use and necessities Of citizens Of the
United States but 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 ffty-three hundred
a nj aiuhtv-piuht of tho RayiSaI Statuta.