Chapter 288. Providing for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture
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CHAP. 288.— An Act Providing for the transfer of forest reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. February 1, 1905. [[H. R. 8460](/us/bill/58/hr/8460).] [[Public, No. 34](/us/pl/58/34).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Forest reserves. Control of, transferred to Agricultural Department. That the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, from and after the passage of this Act, execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands Vol. 26, p. 1103. heretofore or hereafter reserved under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Act entitled “An Act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred Vol. 30, p. 36.
Exceptions. and ninety-one, and Acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting of any of such lands. Sec. 2. Export of pulp wood, etc., from Alaska permitted. That pulp wood or wood pulp manufactured from timber in the district of Alaska may be exported therefrom. Sec. 3. Selection of supervisors and rangers.
That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the said reserves, respectively, are situated. Sec. 4. Water rights granted for mining, etc., purposes. That rights of way for the construction and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, water plants, ditches, flumes, pipes, tunnels, and canals, within and across the forest reserves of the United States, are hereby granted to citizens and corporations of the United States for municipal or mining purposes, and for the purposes of the milling and Regulations. reduction of ores, during the period of their beneficial use, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to the laws of the State or Territory in which said reserves are respectively situated.
Sec. 5. Use of funds received from sale of products, etc. That all money received from the sale of any products or the use of any land or resources of said forest reserves shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States and for a period of five years from the passage of this Act shall constitute a special fund available, until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, for the protection, administration, improvement, and extension of Federal forest reserves.
Approved, February 1, 1905.